Chair (2023-2024)
Hesham Mourad, PharmD, EMBA, BCCCP, BCPS, CPHIMS
Dr. Mourad is a Medication Management Informaticist at Mayo Clinic and an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. His primary responsibilities are to support and optimize medication-related changes in the Electronic Medical Records systems. Within his role, Dr. Mourad is a member of committees that oversee medication safety and smart pumps drug library. He is also a member of the Pharmacy Education Advisory Committee. He serves as primary preceptor for Pharmacy Informatics learning experience within the PGY1 program. He earned his PharmD from Purdue University. He completed a PGY-1 residency at the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, Kentucky. After practicing as clinical pharmacist for two years he completed the Critical Care Traineeship from the ASHP Research and Education Foundation and a PGY-2 Pharmacy Informatics residency with Indiana University Health, Indiana. He is board-certified in Pharmacotherapy and Critical care; he is also Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems. Dr. Mourad has been an active member of Section of Pharmacy Informatics for the last eight years. His previous services include Chair and Immediate Past Chair for the Clinical Application Advisory Group, serving as a Work Group Lead within the Section Advisory Group and representing ASHP within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative.
Hesham Mourad can be e-mailed at [email protected].
Immediate Past Chair (2023-2024)
Benjamin J. Anderson, PharmD, MPH
Benjamin J. Anderson is a medication management informaticist at Mayo Clinic, serving the Mayo Clinic enterprise across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Florida. Anderson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007 with his Pharm.D. degree, in 2008 completed his Masters in public health from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed a postgraduate year one (PGY1) residency in pharmacy and a PGY2 health-system pharmacy administration residency from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a Residency Program Director for a PGY2 residency in informatics and serves as a preceptor to residents and students through Mayo Clinic.
Anderson has been active in the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology for several years, serving as a vice chair and chair for the Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Clinical Information Systems. He is currently in his third year as director-at-large on the Section’s executive committee and will be moderating the Informatics Gems: Resident and New Practitioner Bytes of Informatics sessions at the upcoming ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting.
Benjamin Anderson can be e-mailed at [email protected].
Chair Elect (2023-2024)
Jeffrey Chalmers, PharmD
Jeffrey Chalmers is the Senior Director of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology for the Cleveland Clinic Health System. He leads teams that support pharmacy automation and technology, as well as the medication management tools within the enterprise electronic medical record in both the inpatient and ambulatory environments. His teams support 15 hospitals in Ohio and Florida in addition to the services at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and London. His responsibilities include support for 29 retail pharmacies, and nearly 1000 ambulatory clinics and surgery centers.
Dr. Chalmers earned his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Toledo, and his Pharm.D from the University of Florida. He is an adjunct faculty member at Northeast Ohio Medical University teaching classes in pharmacy informatics.
Jeff prides himself as an informatics pharmacist with expertise in clinical decision support, data analytics, inventory management and the use of artificial intelligence to improve caregiver efficiency. Jeff created the Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Informatics PGY-2 residency program in 2013, illustrating his passion for pharmacy informatics and his desire to give back to the profession. He served as the residency program director until 2018.
Within ASHP Jeff served as a section advisory group member as well as the Vice Chair of Clinical Information Systems section advisory group in 2015-16 and the Chair for the 2016-17 year. He has served on the executive committee for the section as the director at large elect and director at large from 2020 to the present. He is a frequent presenter at ASHP midyear and summer meetings as well as other meetings and conferences.
Jeffrey Chalmers can be e-mailed at [email protected].
Director-at-Large (2022-2024)
David Agüero, PharmD, MSTL, DPLA
David A. Agüero is the director of medication systems and informatics as well as the program director, PGY2 pharmacy informatics, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a pharmacy leader specializing in the coordination, communication, and support of pharmacy services and the medication use process with experience spanning multiple electronic health record and medication distribution platforms in multi-hospital systems as well as academic medical centers.
In his role at St. Jude, He is responsible for leadership of medication-use systems and supporting technologies including informatics, pharmaceutical data analytics, and supply chain service lines.
Agüero graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University before pursuing a specialized residency in medication-use systems and technology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He later earned a master’s degree in science and technology leadership from Brown University. He is also a diplomate of the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy.
He has been deeply involved with the section since first volunteering as a pharmacy student, serving as member and chair on multiple advisory groups and volunteering on the Education Steering Committee for multiple years.
David Aguero can be e-mailed at [email protected].
Director-at-Large (2022-2025)
Ryan Cello, PharmD
Ryan Cello is a Pharmacy Supervisor at UC Davis Health specializing in pharmacy automation, diversion prevention, informatics & analytics. Cello received his Pharm.D. from UCSF and completed a PGY1 acute care residency at UC Davis Health where he has worked in a variety of practice settings including Pain Management, Emergency Medicine, ICU and Perioperative Services. For the past 9 years he has provided leadership and oversight for health system pharmacy initiatives in automation, diversion and informatics. Projects Cello has facilitated include ADM upgrades; IV workflow software implementation; inventory management software implementation; diversion software implementation and IT facility strategic planning to support future pharmacy enterprise expansion projects. Cello is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Francisco and precepts students and residents on automation and informatics rotations. Cello is currently the chair of the ASHP Section Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) Advisory Group on Operations and Automation and served as vice-chair the previous term. He has presented at ASHP’s Midyear Clinical Meeting and was one of the authors of the recently published ASHP Guidelines on the Safe Use of Automated Dispensing Cabinets. Cello also recently served as an advisory committee member for ASHP Foundations report on Advancing Medication Safety Through Technology Innovations: Focus on RFID Technology.
Ryan Cello can be e-mailed at [email protected].
Director-at-Large Elect (2023-2024)
Casey Olsen, PharmD
Casey A. Olsen is a Pharmacy Informatics Coordinator at Advocate Health, a 67-hospital system with inpatient, ambulatory, and retail pharmacy practice areas. Olsen received his Pharm.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed an informatics PGY1/PGY2 residency.
As Pharmacy Informatics Coordinator, Olsen facilitates continuous improvement of technology and policies/practices, with a recent focus on standardizing medication database management and optimizing prescribing. Acting as project manager for interdisciplinary teams of health professionals, pharmacists, analysts, and residents, Olsen prioritizes and tracks system projects emphasizing safety and transparency while managing team workload and project direction. He coordinates resolutions for system safety and regulatory escalations and aligns expectations across IT teams for ownership of tasks and responsibilities for interdisciplinary projects.
Olsen's involvement with ASHP includes serving as Chair and Vice Chair of the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology's Section Advisory Group on Clinical Decision Support and Analytics. Through partnership with ASHP members, he co-authored the ASHP Statement on Artificial Intelligence, collaborated on the creation of an Autoverification Toolkit, and produced various educational resources on novel technologies. Additionally, Olsen has presented on tools for successful electronic health record implementation and use, provided university lectures on health care communication and informatics, and served as a preceptor for residents and student learners.
Casey Olsen can be e-mailed at [email protected].
ASHP Staff
Scott V. Anderson, PharmD, MS, CPHIMS, FASHP
Director, Member Relations
Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology
Scott V. Anderson, PharmD, MS, CPHIMS, FASHP serves as Director, Member Relations at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). In this role, he serves as the liaison for the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) and leads the development and implementation of programs and initiatives for the Section.
Prior to his staff role, he served as a Pharmacy Supervisor at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Scott earned his PharmD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and MS in Health-System Pharmacy Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. After completing a PGY1 as a pharmacy practice management resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he helped to design and complete a PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics residency at the University of Virginia Health System.
Before joining the staff, Scott was an active volunteer at ASHP and the Section, which includes member, workgroup lead, and Vice Chair for the SOPIT Advisory Group on Operations and Automation; member of the SOPIT Educational Steering Committee; program chair for the Informatics Pearls; poster mentor and reviewer; networking session facilitator and Pearls presenter at the Midyear Clinical Meeting; and multiple terms as an ASHP Delegate and Alternate Delegate. He has presented research posters at several ASHP meetings and was recognized as a Fellow of ASHP in 2022.
