Bina Valsangkar, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

Dr. Valsangkar received her medical degree from the University of Michigan medical school. After completing her pediatric residency training at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC, she also obtained a Master in Public Health from Harvard University, where she was a Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

At White Oak Pediatrics, Dr. Valsangkar is affectionately know as “Dr Bina”, and she practices general pediatrics, caring for children and adolescent from birth to young adult. Dr. Bina’s interest and passion in caring for children goes well beyond the boundaries of White Oak Pediatrics. She is a pediatric and newborn technical advisor for the Saving Newborn Lives Program at Save the Children, where she works with Ministries of Health in Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia to reduce neonatal mortality through health programming, policy, and program-based research. Dr. Bina lives in Washington DC and she is fluent in Spanish and French.