Dodd Elected Next President of ASHP

Melanie A. Dodd, PharmD, PhC, BCPS, FASHP, has been elected as ASHP's new President-elect. Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FACHE, FASHP, FAST, and Todd W. Nesbit, PharmD, MBA, CPEL, FASHP, were elected to serve on the ASHP Board of Directors.

Dodd is associate dean for clinical affairs and professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque. She recently completed a term on the ASHP Board of Directors and as chair of the ASHP House of Delegates. Her ASHP service also includes terms as chair of the Council on Public Policy, Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners, and as a member of the ASHP/ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee. She served as a New Mexico delegate to the House of Delegates for 14 years. She is a past president of the New Mexico Society of Health-System Pharmacists and a faculty advisor for the UNM Student Society of Health-System Pharmacy. 

Chisholm-Burns 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 the founder and director of the Medication Access Program. An active member of ASHP for over 30 years, Chisholm-Burns served as 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, and a member of the Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership Advisory Panel, the AJHP editorial board, and the ASHP/ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee.

Nesbit is chief pharmacy officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and vice president for pharmacy services for Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also the residency program director for the HSPAL residency program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. His ASHP service includes the ASHP/ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee, Pharmacy Competency Assessment Center Advisory Board, voting member of the inaugural ASHP Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative Summit, and delegate to the Pharmacy Stakeholders Conference on MTM Services. Nesbit also served as co-chair of the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacy Practice Model Task Force. 

Dodd will begin her term immediately. Chisholm-Burns and Nesbit will begin their three-year terms in June 2025. 

ASHP thanks the members of the Board of Canvassers for their work to certify the election results. The members of the Board of Canvassers are Mary Binghay, Chris Ellison (Chair), Shabir Somani, John Spain, and James Trovato.