SDTP Leadership

Executive Committee

The role of the Section Executive Committee is to provide leadership, guidance, and advice to ASHP on ways to better meet the day to day practice needs of members.

Executive Committee members can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.


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Chair (2025-2026)

Lisa S. Stump, MS, RPH, FASHP

Lisa StumpLisa S. Stump earned her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, her Master's degree in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University, and completed an ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency in Pharmacy Administration at the Grant Medical Center in Columbus, OH. She is the Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Information Officer at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY where she is also the Dean of Information Technology at the Icahn School of Medicine. As a clinical pharmacist and director of pharmacy, Lisa implemented and managed formulary policy, drug information services, and clinical pharmacy services while developing new clinical and residency training programs. She was instrumental in advancing pharmacy information systems, automated dispensing solutions, robotics, BCMA, and smart pumps. In her roles in Clinical Informatics, as the Epic Project Leader, and eventually Chief Information and Digital Officer, she has led the design and implementation of electronic medical records systems, business and clinical systems, data and analytics, virtual, digital health and telehealth services, and is now leading the evaluation and implementation of artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare. Lisa was appointed the inaugural Chair of the new section of Digital and Telehealth Providers where she currently serves. In that role, she led the development of the SDTP Mission and launched several work teams aimed at advancing our goals. This work led to the launch of several educational sessions and foundational resources that will serve the SDTP section and ASHP members. Lisa held positions in state Pharmacy Societies in Connecticut and Ohio. She is a frequent speaker at ASHP and at regional and national forums on AI, Data, and Information Technology.


Chair Elect (2025-2026)

Melanie J. Engels, PharmD, MBA

Melanie J. EngelsMelanie J. Engels is the Director of Pharmacy Strategy & Innovation at Froedtert ThedaCare Health in Milwaukee, where she is responsible for the enterprise-wide Pharmacy Services Strategic Plan development and execution. In this role, Engels collaborates with key department stakeholders from executive leaders to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on the front lines. Engels earned her PharmD from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in Ann Arbor. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System and received her MBA from New England College after completing her second year of residency in health-system pharmacy administration at Michigan Medicine.

Engels has been active within ASHP, including service contributions as an ASHP Foundation’s Literature Awards review panelist, AJHP manuscript peer-reviewer, Guided Mentorship Program mentor, and Section of Digital & Telehealth Practitioners member, where she is currently serving on The Role of Pharmacists in Digital Health Transformation work group. She was honored with the ASHP Foundation’s Innovation in Pharmacy Practice Literature Award in 2017, is a published author in AJHP, and frequently presents at ASHP meetings and conferences.


Director-at-Large (2024-2026)

Addison P. Ragan, PharmD, BCPS

Addison Ragan Addison P. Ragan is the pharmacy program manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Clinical Resource Hub (CRH). The CRH was established in 2020 as a novel solution to support Veteran access to care in underserved regions using an enterprise-wide telehealth hub and spoke model. Ragan champions the role of the clinical pharmacist practitioner (CPP) within the CRH by optimizing CPP involvement in virtual team-based care across ambulatory practices. She has led VA efforts to integrate interdisciplinary health professional trainees, including pharmacy residents and students, and clinical pharmacy technicians into this innovative telehealth model.

Ragan earned her PharmD from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy and began her career with the VA as a primary care pharmacist where she pioneered medication management clinics. She later served as associate chief of clinical pharmacy for the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System where she led clinical pharmacy practice advancements in mental health, cardiology, pain, infectious disease, and data analytics. Her proudest accomplishment was the initiation of a PGY-1 residency program which ensured clinical pharmacy services flourished in a difficult to recruit geographic region. Ragan went on to manage a regional virtual academic detailing team that demonstrated the positive impact one-on-one pharmacist to provider outreach visits can have on system wide evidence-based prescribing. Her diversity of experiences has allowed her to be an active contributor to ASHP educational sessions and publications. She currently serves as an inaugural member of the Section of Digital and Telehealth Practitioners.


Director-at-Large (2025-2027)

Scott D. Nelson, PharmD, MS, FAMIA, ACHIP

Scott NelsonScott D. Nelson is an informatics pharmacist and Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as the Director of the Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics (MS-ACI) online program and as a Clinical Director in HealthIT. His expertise include artificial intelligence, clinical decision support, medication safety, e-prescribing, and medication reconciliation. He earned his PharmD from the University of Utah, followed by a two-year fellowship in Medical Informatics with the Department of Veterans Affairs and a MS in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and an AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional (ACHIP).

Dr. Nelson’s leadership in ASHP includes currently serving as an inaugural member of the Section of Digital and Telehealth Practitioners (SDTP) Executive Committee, an advisory panel member for the ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast, and a frequent contributor to AJHP articles and publications. He regularly participates and presents at the ASHP June Meeting and Midyear Clinical Meetings and served as faculty for the ASHP Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy Certificate and Basics of Data Analytics Certificate programs. Additionally, he is a member of the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT). Outside of his professional endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his children, boating, running, traveling, and rock climbing.


Director-at-Large Elect (2025-2026)

Hanlin Li, PharmD, MBA, BCACP

Hanlin Li Hanlin Li is the pharmacy director of ambulatory care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She oversees a dynamic team of clinical pharmacists, staff pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, interns, and support specialists. Her performance history on digital and telehealth encompasses implementing multiple centralized telepharmacy services across care transitions, including tele-medication history at admission, electronic prior authorization at discharge in acute and ambulatory settings, comprehensive discharge tele-counseling, virtual ambulatory pharmacy appointments, and remote patient monitoring programs, which have enhanced outcomes and efficiency.

Li earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. John's University and a master's in business administration degree from the University of Arizona. She completed her first-year residency at the Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, followed by a second-year ambulatory care residency at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Florida.

Her dedication to ASHP spans from her days as a pharmacy student to her current role as an ambulatory care practitioner. She has actively contributed to various sections, including Ambulatory Care Practitioners, Pharmacy Practice Leaders, and Digital and Telehealth Practitioners. As a co-author of key resources and faculty for the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course, she shapes the future of pharmacy and advocates for the profession's growth. She mentors students, technicians, interns, residents, and pharmacists and serves as an ASHP PGY1/PGY2 preceptor. Her state-level involvement with the New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists includes advocacy and professional affairs, and she frequently presents at ASHP meetings and specialty conferences.




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