Dipesh Navsaria MPH, MSLIS, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, UW-Madison, Madison, WisconsinDr. Dipesh Navsaria is a pediatrician working in the public interest. He blends the roles of physician, occasional children's librarian, educator, public health professional, and child health advocate. With graduate degrees in public health, children's librarianship, physician assistant studies, and medicine, he brings a unique combination of interests and experience together.
Committed to understanding how basic science can translate into busy primary-care settings via population health concepts and policy initiatives, Dr. Navsaria aims to educate the next generation of those who work with children and families in realizing how their professional roles include being involved in larger concepts of social policy and how they may affect the cognitive and socioemotional development of children for their future benefit.
Disclosures
- Consulting pediatrician: Pediatrics Supporting Parents Initiative
- Board of directors: Reach Out and Read National Center
- Founding medical director: Reach Out and Read Wisconsin
- Board of directors: Parents as Teachers
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Health Impairments in Children and Adolescents After Hospitalization for Acute COVID-19 or MIS-C
- Association of Outpatient Oral Macrolide Use With Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
- Association of Prenatal Exposure to Opioid Analgesics With Scholastic Skills in Children in Fifth Grade in Norway
- Association of Early Food Intervention and Skin Emollient Application With Food Allergy Prevention in Young Children
- American Academy of Pediatrics' Updated 2022 Recommendations for Reducing Sleep-Related Infant Deaths
- Effects of Bed-Sharing Experience in Infancy on Sleep Outcomes at 2 Years of Age
- Improving Caregiver Understanding of Liquid Acetaminophen Administration at Primary Care Visits
- Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Shots Work for Children Under 5, FDA Says
- Improving Health in Immigration Detention Centers and Promoting Alternatives to Detention
- Butyrylcholinesterase Is a Potential Biomarker for SIDS