Dipesh Navsaria

Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Human Ecology
Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Dipesh Navsaria is a Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology. Previously, Dipesh was an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He practices primary-care pediatrics at a community health center working with underserved populations. He is also deeply involved in Reach Out and Read, an initiative that makes literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care, so that children grow up with books and a love of reading. He is also involved with early brain and child development leadership with the American Academy of Pediatrics and public health education with medical students.

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