Anupam Kharbanda, MD, MS, FAAP

Anupam Kharbanda, MD, MS, FAAP, received his BA in Biology from Carleton College and completed his medical education at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He completed residency in pediatrics at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University. After residency he served as Chief Resident and then went on to complete his Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kharbanda also received a Masters in Biostatistics at Columbia University. Dr. Kharbanda was an attending PEM physician at Columbia University for five years. While at Columbia, he served as Director of Clinical Operations for the Pediatric ED working on strategies to improve patient flow, promote patient safety, create clinical pathways, and implement an electronic health record system. In 2010, he moved to Minnesota and is currently a Staff Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota. In addition, he serves as the Director of Research for Emergency Services and the Associate Fellowship Director for Pediatric Medicine.

Dr. Kharbanda has published numerous articles in the field of pediatric appendicitis. He is nationally recognized for his work on novel urine and serum biomarkers for appendicitis as well as clinical pathways for the management of children with acute abdominal pain. He has written several textbooks chapters on abdominal pain, pediatric appendicitis and pediatric trauma. In addition, he has been invited to present his research on pediatric appendicitis on numerous occasions across the country. He recently completed a large ten-center study to develop cost effective strategies to manage children with abdominal pain.

Dr. Kharbanda has also been very active with the Section of Emergency Medicine of the AAP. He is the incoming chair of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee and leads the section on research for the Committee on Quality Transformation of the AAP.

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