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 clinically active as a pediatric cardiologist at UMass Medical School, where he is an assistant professor. He has published scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums, and speaks widely on medical issues. A frequent writer for the Boston Globe and commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, Sanghavi also serves on the advisory board of Parents magazine and was a visiting media fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation.