Elyse O. Kharbanda, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Research

"Investing in the health and well-being of pregnant people, children, and adolescents is key to understanding and ultimately preventing chronic diseases in adult populations. My research covers a range of topics in maternal and child health including vaccination in pregnancy, pediatric hypertension, and adolescent risk behavior screening."

About

Dr. Elyse Olshen Kharbanda is Executive Director of Research and a Senior Research Investigator at HealthPartners Institute. Dr. Kharbanda is a board-certified pediatrician with subspecialty board certification in adolescent medicine. Since joining the Institute in 2010, Dr. Kharbanda has led an impactful portfolio of research, leveraging health system data to promote health care quality for women and children.

Dr. Kharbanda leads the HealthPartners Institute Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) team. In collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several other health systems, the VSD conducts post-licensure safety surveillance for vaccine in use in the United States. Dr. Kharbanda and her HealthPartners-based VSD team have and continue to lead multisite observational studies of vaccines administered during pregnancy, with publications in JAMA, NEJM and MMWR. Data from these studies has been widely disseminated, including through presentations to the Advisory

Affiliation

positions

  • Executive Director, Research, Cardiovascular health
  • Sr. Investigator, Center for Chronic Care Innovation 2010 -
  • Sr. Research Investigator, Vaccines 2010 -
  • Sr. Research Investigator, Pregnancy and child health 2010 -
  • Senior Research Investigator, MD, Primary care, pediatrics 2010 -
  • Executive Director, Research, HealthPartners Institute 2021 -
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • "I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion
    Healthcare. 2024
  • An electronic teen questionnaire, the eTeenQ, for risk behavior screening during adolescent well visits in an integrated health system: development and pilot implementation
    JMIR pediatrics and parenting. 2024
  • COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester and major structural birth defects among live births
    JAMA pediatrics. 2024
  • Cardiometabolic risk in pediatric patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2024
  • Case series of patients with acute and chronic urticaria after COVID-19 vaccination
    Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2024
  • Conference Poster
  • Elevated blood pressure and risks for progression to hypertension in youth 10-17 years of age [poster]
    2019
  • Development and validation of a risk equation for appendicitis in children presenting with abdominal pain [poster]
    2017
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in completion of the routine immunization series by age two [poster]
    2017
  • Results of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of TeenBP, an EHR-based clinical decision support tool, on recognition of adolescent hypertension [poster]
    2017
  • Incident ADHD diagnosis and use of stimulant medication among youth 10-17 years [poster]
    2015
  • Abstract
  • Pediatric appendicitis: trends in emergency department imaging and outcomes in the community setting, 2010-2015 [abstract]
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2016
  • Relation of change in weight status to the development of hypertension in children and adolescents [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Glucose screening and identification of pre-diabetes in children and adolescents 2007-2011 [abstract]
    Diabetes. 2013
  • Leukotriene inhibitors may be more effective than inhaled corticosteroids in preventing asthma-related exacerbations [abstract]
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2013
  • A descriptive study of vaccinations occurring during pregnancy, 2002-2006 [abstract]
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • presentations

    Presentation
  • Association of BMI and change in BMI on progression from normotension to prehyertension or hypertension in patients ages 3-17 [presentation], Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting
  • Association of BMI and change in BMI on progression from normotension to prehypertension or hypertension in patients ages 3-17 [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 17th Annual Conference
  • Disparities in pregnancy and birth rates among insured adolescents, 2003-2010 [presentation], Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting
  • Evaluation of the association of maternal pertussis vaccination with obstetric events and birth outcomes [presentation], Pediatric Academic Societies/Asian Society for Pediatric Research (PAS/ASPR) 2014 Joint Meeting
  • FluText: using text messaging to promote timely flu vaccination in an underserved child population [presentation], Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting
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  • Elyse O. Kharbanda, MD, MPH
  • primary email

  • Elyse.O.Kharbanda@HealthPartners.Com
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