Darshak Sanghavi

Educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Darshak Sanghavi completed his clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston after working for several years as a pediatrician for the U.S. Indian Health Service in Navajo country. Currently, he is the chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

An innovative thinker and communicator about health issues, he has published numerous scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums. His work has been featured in Business Week, Teen Vogue, the Economist, the New York Times, and on CNN with Sanjay Gupta. A frequent guest on NPR's All Things Considered and NBC's Today, Sanghavi is a contributing editor to Parents magazine, a columnist for the Boston Globe, and Slate's health care columnist, where he often writes about health care reform and politics. He is also a member of the Lluminari expert network and a former visiting media fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation. His best-selling book, A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body, was named a best health book of the year by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times called it "lyrical."

His web site is http://www.darshaksanghavi.com and Twitter feed is http://twitter.com/darshaksanghavi