
Elyse O. Kharbanda, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Research
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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 Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
A second area of focus for Dr. Kharbanda has been the use of point-of-care electronic data capture and clinical decision support (CDS) to improve care for children and adolescents. With funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH), Dr. Kharbanda developed and implemented an electronic health record linked CDS to improve recognition and early management of hypertension in adolescents. This tool has been implemented across the HealthPartners care delivery system and with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is now being adapted and implemented in Essentia Health. Dr. Kharbanda has also helped in the development and validation of the pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC) and has piloted a tool for electronic capture of adolescent risk screening.
Dr. Kharbanda completed her medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, pediatric residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University and adolescent fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She received a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University and was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Columbia University prior to joining the Institute.
Joined the Institute: 2010
Education and training: MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; MPH, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Overview/research interests: Vaccine and drug safety and pregnancy, clinical decision support, teen pregnancy, and interventions to promote vaccine uptake.
Current research activities and funding:
- Vaccine Safety Datalink
- EHR-Based Clinical Decision Support to Improve BP Management in Adolescents (Peds and TeenBP)
- EHR-Based Decision Support for Pediatric Acute Abdominal Pain in Emergency Care (Appy CDS)
- Adolescent risk behavior screening (eTeenQ)
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
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Publications While At HealthPartners
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Journal Article
Healthcare.
2024
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.
2024
Public Health Reports.
2024
Vaccine.
2024
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).
2024
Birth defects research.
2023
JAMA pediatrics.
2022
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
2022
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
2021
Annals of Human Biology.
2021
Academic Pediatrics.
2020
Academic Pediatrics.
2020
Academic Pediatrics.
2018
Minn Physician.
2017
Preventing Chronic Disease.
2015
EGEMS (Washington, DC).
2015
American Journal of Managed Care.
2014
Journal of Adolescent Health.
2014
Maternal and child health journal.
2013
Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews.
2011
Academic Pediatrics.
2011
MMWR: Recommendations and Reports.
2009
Editorial Article
Journal of Adolescent Health.
62.
2018
Journal of Adolescent Health.
48.
2011
Conference Poster
2019
2017
2017
2017
2015
2015
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
Review
Pediatric Annals.
2010
Abstract
Annals of Emergency Medicine.
2016
Journal of patient-centered research and reviews.
2016
Diabetes.
2013
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
2013
Clinical Medicine & Research.
2012
Clinical Medicine & Research.
2012
Clinical Medicine & Research.
2012
Clinical Medicine & Research.
2012
Clinical Medicine & Research.
2011
Diabetes.
2011
Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.).
2011
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Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at HealthPartners. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at HealthPartners. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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