Meet the ASHP Board of Directors

The ASHP Board of Directors is our organization's governing authority. Board members safeguard ASHP's success by cooperatively developing goals and policies. See who's on the current roster and learn how they've contributed to ASHP and the profession.

Leigh Briscoe-Dwyer, PharmD, BSPharm, BCPS, FASHP, received her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from Albany College of Pharmacy and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. John’s University. She began her career as a clinical specialist in HIV and infectious disease at SUNY Stony Brook and has worked in various areas of pharmacy practice, including the pharmaceutical industry, with the majority of the last 20 years in pharmacy leadership roles.

Her ASHP service includes Board of Directors (2020–2023), chair, Committee on Nominations, Council on Public Policy, the FASHP Recognition Committee, and New York State delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for over ten years. Briscoe-Dwyer is a past president of the Long Island Society of Health-system Pharmacists and the New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists (NYSCHP). She served as a trustee for Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and chaired the Academic Affairs Committee. In addition, she served on the New York State Board of Pharmacy for ten years in several capacities, including as its chair.

She has received numerous recognitions for her contributions to pharmacy, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from St. John’s University, the NYSCHP Board of Directors Award, and the NYSCHP Research and Education Foundation Bernard Mehl Leadership Award. Briscoe-Dwyer serves as president of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Melanie Dodd, PharmD, PhC, BCPS, FASHP, is associate dean for clinical affairs and professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque. She earned her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from Purdue University and Doctor of Pharmacy from UNM and completed her pharmacy practice residency at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. She oversees innovative clinical models and faculty clinical services, including credentialing, contracting, billing and reimbursement. She provides key pharmacy professional advocacy and serves on academic and health-system leadership committees. Dodd is a pharmacist clinician in geriatric primary care with broad prescriptive authority at the UNM Hospitals Senior Health Clinic and is a consultant pharmacist for 340B-eligible and other ambulatory clinics. She is responsible for extensive didactic and clinical teaching activities in the UNM PharmD program and Health Sciences Center, including geriatric syndromes, pharmacy law, interprofessional education, and precepting residents. Her research includes geriatric syndromes, advanced practice pharmacist models, and scholarship of teaching.

Dodd’s ASHP service includes member of the Board of Directors and chair, ASHP House of Delegates (2021–2024), chair of the Council on Public Policy, chair of the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners (SACP), member, Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee, and New Mexico delegate to the House of Delegates for 14 years. She is past president of the New Mexico Sociery of Health-System Pharmacists (NMSHP) and faculty advisor for the UNM Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists. She has received numerous awards for her service to the profession, including the ASHP Pharmacy Champion Award, SACP Distinguished Service Award, fellow of ASHP, and NMSHP Dorothy Dillon Memorial Lecture Award. Dodd serves as president-elect of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Nishaminy (Nish) Kasbekar, PharmD, BSPharm, FASHP, is vice president and chief pharmacy officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. She earned her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and completed residencies in pharmacy practice and infectious diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Kasbekar began her career providing direct patient care as a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases, implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program. In her 27 years at Penn Medicine, she has led many strategic and programmatic initiatives expanding the scope, services, and influence of the pharmacy department in inpatient and ambulatory areas.

Her ASHP service includes Board of Directors (2019–2025); chair, Section Advisory Group on Multi-Hospital Pharmacy Executives; chair, Council on Pharmacy Practice; Women in Pharmacy Leadership Steering Committee; AJHP Editorial Board; and delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for nine years. In addition, she has served as chair, Vizient Practice Advancement Committee; president, Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists (PSHP); president, Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association Educational Foundation; and president, Delaware Valley Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Kasbekar has also received numerous recognitions for her work and contribution to pharmacy, including an honorary Doctorate from Saint Joseph’s University, the PSHP Pharmacist of the Year Award, Joe E. Smith Award, Sister M. Gonzales Duffy Award, and as a fellow of ASHP. She has also published and presented on a variety of topics, including leadership development, process improvement in healthcare, well-being and resilience, and innovative practice models. Kasbekar serves as immediate past president of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Christene Jolowsky, BSPharm, MS, FASHP, FMSHP, is senior director of pharmacy for Hennepin Healthcare System in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her BSPharm and MS in pharmacy administration at the University of Minnesota and completed a two-year ASHP-accredited administrative residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital. She is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, teaching in both the PharmD and graduate curriculums.

In her current role, she is responsible for inpatient, retail, and clinic-based pharmacy services for the system and the poison control center. Jolowsky has led teams around patient safety and clinical service initiatives. Her expertise is in clinical and operational performance improvement. Key accomplishments include promoting technician, student, and residency training and expanding the roles and scope of practice for pharmacists.

Her service to ASHP includes serving as president and on the Board of Directors, and serving on many councils, committees, and task forces for ASHP and local and state health-system chapters. She has been a Minnesota delegate to ASHP’s House of Delegates and served as president of the Minnesota Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP). She is a fellow of both ASHP and MSHP.

Jolowsky was honored with the Distinguished Service Award for the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers in 2009, the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy’s Preceptor of the Year and MSHP’s Hallie Bruce Award in 2005, and the MSHP Hugh F. Kabat Award in 2012. Jolowsky serves as ASHP treasurer.

Kristine (Kristi) Gullickson, PharmD, MBA, DPLA, FASHP, FMSHP, is the system director for acute care pharmacy operations at Allina Health in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In her current role, Gullickson oversees pharmacy services across twelve hospital campuses, hospital-based clinics and infusion centers, and oncology pharmacy services. She also serves as pharmacy director at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina’s 700-bed teaching hospital, and residency program director of the postgraduate year 1/2 health system pharmacy administration and leadership residency program.

Gullickson earned her pharmacy degrees from North Dakota State University and MBA in healthcare administration from New England College. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and earned a diploma from the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy. With over 30 years of experience leading health-system pharmacy practice, her passion is developing others, collaborating with health care teams, and supporting those who care for patients.

Gullickson’s ASHP service includes Board of Directors (2023–2025); chair, Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders (SPPL) Executive Committee; chair, Council on Pharmacy Practice; delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for over 10 years; alternate, ASHP Committee on Nominations; chair, SPPL Committee on Nominations; contributor, ASHP Leadership Basics Certificate; and expert panel member, ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Diversion of Controlled Substances and the ASHP/APhA Medication Management in Care Transitions project. She is a past president of the Minnesota Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) and a fellow of ASHP and MSHP. Gullickson currently serves as faculty, ASHP manager boot camp and director-at-large on the Vizient Pharmacy Network, Executive Committee. She has been recognized for her contributions to advancing pharmacy practice, including the ASHP SPPL Distinguished Service Award (2023); MSHP Hallie Bruce Memorial Lecture Award, Minnesota’s highest honor (2020); MSHP Tom Kohout Meritorious Service Award (2015); MSHP Hugh F. Kabat Award (2014); and ASHP Best Practices Award (2011). Gullickson serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Jesse H. Hogue, PharmD, is the pharmacy education coordinator, postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency director, and an emergency department pharmacist at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also serves as an affiliate preceptor for the Ferris State University (FSU) College of Pharmacy. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from FSU and completed residency training at Bronson Methodist Hospital. After residency, he worked in trauma and orthopedics, then had the opportunity to establish pharmacy services in the emergency department, where he worked for several years prior to assuming his current role.

Hogue recently completed his term of service on the ASHP Commission on Credentialing and has been a Michigan delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for 15 years. He has previously served on the ASHP Council on Education and Workforce Development. Hogue has also been very engaged on the state level, having served as president, treasurer, and executive board member for the Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP), as an executive board member for the Michigan Pharmacists Association (MPA), as a delegate in the MPA House of Delegates for many years, and as a member on numerous MSHP and MPA committees and task forces. He has been recognized in Michigan for his contributions to the profession as a fellow of MPA and a member of the MPA Hall of Honor. Additionally, he has received the MSHP Pharmacist of the Year Award, the MSHP Joseph A. Oddis Leadership Award, and the MPA Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year Award. Hogue serves as chair of the ASHP House of Delegates and member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Vivian Bradley Johnson PharmD, BS, RPh, MBA, FASHP, is the senior vice president of community health services and senior pharmacy advisor at Parkland Health in Dallas, Texas. Prior to leading Community Health Services, she provided oversight of pharmacy, radiology, respiratory, clinical dietary, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and laboratory services for Parkland Health.

She has spent over 38 years providing healthcare services to the underserved in Dallas County. Under Johnson’s leadership, many pharmacy programs have been developed, including a 340B program.

She is originally from Lake City, Florida. Johnson attended Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Pharmacy. She attained her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, and an MBA from University of Dallas.

Johnson has been the recipient of many awards, including the Association of Black Health System Pharmacists Wendell T. Hill Award and the 2010 Texas Pharmacy Leadership Award. She has served on the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists Professional Affairs Council and the Leadership Section. Johnson is a long-term member of ASHP, and she was named an ASHP fellow in 1999. She has served on the ASHP Residency Excellence Awards Committee, the Council on Pharmacy Management, and the ASHP Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. She was appointed to the Pharmacy Executive Leadership Alliance Advisory Panel and the ASHP Forecast 2022 Advisory Committee. She continues to be an advocate and active member in the pharmacy profession. Johnson serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Dawn Moore, PharmD, MS, CPEL, FACHE, is the vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Community Health Network in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an affiliate assistant professor at Purdue University and Butler University. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Florida A&M University and MS from University of Wisconsin.

In her current role, she oversees the strategic, administrative, and operational initiatives of the pharmacy enterprise encompassing inpatient, retail, specialty, ambulatory care pharmacy, homecare, and infusion pharmacy services. With over 22 years of experience leading hospital and health-system pharmacies, she is skilled at driving quality and safety in patient care, optimizing medication revenue integrity, decreasing drug costs and inappropriate utilization, and expanding and implementing new practices.

Moore is a member of the ASHP Pharmacy Executive Leadership Alliance and has served as a member of the ASHP Task Force on Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; ASHP Multi-Hospital Health-System Pharmacy Executive Committee; ASHP Women in Pharmacy Leadership Steering Committee; ASHP Council on Pharmacy Management; and as adjunct faculty to the ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Leadership Academy. She was in the inaugural ASHP cohort for the Certified Pharmacy Executive Leaders℠ (CPEL), earning CPEL credentials. In addition to her leadership within ASHP, she leads in her community as a board member, Indianapolis Coalition for Patient Safety; member, Indiana Healthcare Executives Network, and served as president, Indiana Pharmacy Association. Her passion to address health disparities cultivated her interest as a board member and chair, The Martin Center for Sickle Cell Initiative. Moore serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Vickie Powell, PharmD, MS, BSPharm, CPEL, FASHP, is the enterprise director of pharmacy diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, human resources, and training and education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital is affiliated with two of the nation’s leading medical colleges: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College. The hospital and its academic affiliates share a commitment to pursuing clinical excellence, engaging in groundbreaking biomedical research, outstanding medical education, and providing prevention and wellness services to the community. Powell is a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy at Long Island University and a guest lecturer at the Touro College of Pharmacy. She is passionate about training the next generation of pharmacists, and she mentors many pharmacy students across the country.

Powell received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Master of Science degree in pharmacy administration from Long Island University, New York, and a PharmD degree from Howard University, Washington, D.C. She is a fellow of ASHP and was in the inaugural ASHP cohort for the Certified Pharmacy Executive Leaders (CPEL℠), earning CPEL credentials.

Powell is the past president of the New York City Society and New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists (NYSCHP). She remains active in both organizations and recently chaired NYSCHP’s inaugural DEI committee. Powell’s sustained ASHP service includes: delegate to the House of Delegates, member of the Council on Education and Workforce Development, ASHP Policy-Process CQI Special Committee, Board of Canvassers, ASHP Committee on Nominations, Council on Pharmacy Practice, ASHP Task Force on Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Certified Pharmacy Executive Leaders Advisory Committee, and past chair of the ASHP Advocacy and PAC Advisory Committee. Powell serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Douglas Slain, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, is a professor and anti-infective consultant at The University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as the chairman of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Department. Slain received his pharmacy bachelor’s degree and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He then completed a residency and fellowship in infectious diseases pharmacotherapy at the Virginia Commonwealth University–Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond.

Slain has been extensively involved with ASHP. He has served as chair and director-at-large of the Section of Clinical Specialists & Scientists, as chair of the Council on Therapeutics, as a voting member of the historic Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative Summit, as a member of the 2012–2013 Task Force on Organizational Structure, as a delegate to the House of Delegates, and as vice president of the West Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He has also served as a postgraduate year 2 infectious diseases residency program director for over 20 years. Slain serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Jennifer Tryon, PharmD, MS, FASHP, is the chief pharmacy officer at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan, leading inpatient, outpatient, and health plan pharmacy teams for the integrated delivery network. Having practiced pharmacy in community hospitals, academic health systems, and integrated delivery networks, she has broad perspectives on unique challenges across health-system pharmacy. Committed to teaching, she has lectured in multiple schools of pharmacy and is an associate faculty member for the ASHP Foundation's Pharmacy Leadership Academy. She has been the residency program director for multiple health-system pharmacy administration and leadership and postgraduate year-1 residency programs and has enjoyed training over 100 pharmacy residents. Tryon received her MS from the University of Wisconsin and her PharmD from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. She completed a two-year health-system pharmacy administration residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.

She has served ASHP as the chair of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders, the Council on Pharmacy Management, and section advisory groups and served in the House of Delegates. She is past president of the Oregon Society of Health-System Pharmacists and has held other elected positions in multiple pharmacy associations.

Tryon has a passion for innovative models to advance healthcare. She is frequently invited to present on leadership and business of pharmacy topics within the United States and internationally. She was honored with the 2021 Distinguished Service Award for the ASHP Section for Pharmacy Practice Leaders and was a named a 2020 Emerging Industry Leader by Managed Healthcare Executive. Tryon serves as a member of the ASHP Board of Directors.

Marie A. Chisholm-Burns PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FACHE, FASHP, FAST, is the executive vice president and provost of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the J.S. Reinschmidt Endowed Professor in the OHSU School of Medicine. She is also founder and director of the Medication Access Program, which has helped thousands of solid-organ transplant recipients receive more than $120 million in prescription medications.

She received her BS in pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Georgia, Master of Public Health degree from Emory University, Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Memphis, and PhD degree from the University of South Dakota. She completed her residency at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also achieved FACHE certification and practiced in several regions of the United States. A dedicated scholar, she has more than 390 publications and over $19 million in external funding as principal investigator and co-investigator from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health and several foundations.

Chisholm-Burns has been an active member of ASHP for over 30 years. She previously served in several ASHP leadership positions. She was the inaugural chair of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Educators Executive Committee, director-at-large of the ASHP Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Executive Committee, a member of the Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership Advisory Panel, and a member of the AJHP editorial board. She is a member of the Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee and contributed to several forecasts over the years, including 2024 (public health priorities), 2023 (health disparities), and 2021 (healthcare access). Additionally, she has received several awards from ASHP, including the 2022 Board of Directors Distinguished Leadership Award. Chisholm-Burns will begin her 3-year term on the ASHP Board of Directors in June 2025.

Todd W. Nesbit, PharmD, MBA, CPEL, FASHP, serves as chief pharmacy officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and vice president for pharmacy services for Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland. As executive pharmacy leader, he is responsible for directing hospital and health-system practice, research, and education, and implementing system-wide pharmacy services across the continuum. He is the residency program director for the health-system pharmacy administration and leadership residency program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and has served as preceptor and mentor to pharmacy students and residents for more than 30 years.

He received his BS in pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University, his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from The Ohio State University, and his MBA degree in medical services management from Johns Hopkins University. Through positions of increasing responsibility held in diverse hospitals and academic medical centers, he has worked to promote and advance the role of the pharmacist and clinical pharmacy in health systems.

Nesbit has extensive experience serving ASHP and state affiliates, including ASHP Forecast Advisory Committee member and chapter author; Pharmacy Competency Assessment Center Advisory Board member and section editor; co-chair of the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacy (MSHP) Practice Model Task Force; voting member of the inaugural Pharmacy Practice Model Summit; and delegate to the Pharmacy Stakeholders Conference on MTM Services. He has been recognized as a fellow of ASHP and has achieved the status of Certified Pharmacy Executive Leader by the organization. Nesbit received the MSHP W. Arthur Purdum Award for significant contributions to health-system pharmacy. Nesbit will begin his 3-year term on the ASHP Board of Directors in June 2025.