2013-2014 Board Nominees for
Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics &
Minnesota Academy of Pediatrics Foundation
Anupam B Kharbanda, MD, MSc, FAAP
Anupam Kharbanda is the Director of Research for Emergency and Trauma Services at
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. He attended Carleton College, medical
school at the University of Iowa and completed his residency training in pediatrics and
served as Chief Resident at Columbia University. During his training he was actively
involved in the resident/fellow section of the AAP and served as Chairman of the AAP
Section on Residents in 2002.
Dr. Kharbanda completed a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital,
Harvard Medical School. He has also received a Masters in Biostatistics at Columbia University. He was
an attending physician at Columbia University for five years before relocating to Minneapolis in 2010.
Dr. Kharbanda is the current Chairman of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research
Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has published numerous articles in the field of
pediatric appendicitis. He is nationally recognized for his work on clinical pathways for the management of
children in the emergency department setting. He has written several textbooks chapters on abdominal
pain, pediatric appendicitis and pediatric trauma. His current interests include developing evidencedbased care pathways, clinical decision support tools and quality improvement within the pediatric
emergency department. He is also actively engaged in fellow and resident education. Dr. Kharbanda is
married and has two school-aged children.
Read Sulik, MD, FAAP
Read Sulik is the Senior Vice President of Behavioral Health Services for Sanford Health.
His role at Sanford Health includes leading the Sanford One Care, a $12.1 million CMS
Health Care Innovation Award funded to transform primary care through fully integrated
primary and behavioral health care patient-centered enhanced medical homes. Prior to
joining Sanford Health, he served as the Assistant Commissioner of the Minnesota
Department of Human Services over the Chemical and Mental Health Services and was
the Medical Director of child and adolescent psychiatry of the St. Cloud Hospital/
CentraCare Health System in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Dr. Sulik received his medical degree from the
University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his training as a pediatrician, adult psychiatrist,
and child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Triple Board Combined Residency Program at the University
of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Sulik is a Clinical Associate Professor at the
University of Minnesota, Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and a Clinical Associate Professor at
the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
He has been actively involved with the AAP and has been the AACAP liaison to the Task Force on Mental
Health and also Bright Futures and is currently the AACAP liaison to the Committee on Psychosocial
Aspects of Child and Family Health (COPACFH). He is married and the father of three incredible teenage
children. He loves traveling and cooking with his family, hiking, wildlife photography, and learning as
much as he can from his kids!