Chair (2026-2027)
Bryan G. Shaw, PharmD, DPLA, FASHP
Bryan G. Shaw serves as the senior director of analytics, insights, and education at Vizient, Inc., where he oversees pharmacy data strategy, education, and advanced training programs. He is the director of the fellowship and PGY2 residency programs in pharmacy informatics and supply chain leadership. A graduate of Creighton University, he earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2012 and completed both a PGY1 non-traditional pharmacy residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a PGY2 pharmacy informatics residency through Vizient and the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. He also holds a Diplomate distinction from the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy.
Dr. Shaw’s professional trajectory spans frontline decentralized clinical practice to leading informatics teams and national pharmacy analytics strategy. Currently, his team works with health systems across the country to establish best practices, support strategy development, and drive implementation of advanced analytics, informatics, and technology. In addition to oversight of fellowship and PGY2 residency programs, he collaborates with over 20 colleges of pharmacy for APPE experiences.
An active ASHP member for over a decade, he has held multiple leadership roles within the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT), including chair and vice chair of the Section Advisory Group on Education & Professional Development. He also previously served as chair of the SAG on Advancing Pharmacy Practice with Technicians and as a member of SAGs on Experiential Precepting and Technician Advancement. His commitment to informatics education, technician advancement, and practical implementation of data tools continues to shape national practice standards.
Bryan G. Shaw can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
Immediate Past Chair (2026-2027)
David Agüero, PharmD, MSTL, FAMIA, FASHP
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 sections@ashp.org
Chair Elect (2026-2027)
Casey A. Olsen, PharmD
Casey A. Olsen is a pharmacy informatics manager at Advocate Health, a 69-hospital system with inpatient, ambulatory, and retail pharmacy practice areas. Olsen received his PharmD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed an informatics PGY1/PGY2 residency. As pharmacy informatics manager, Olsen facilitates continuous improvement of technology and policies/practices, with a recent focus on standardizing medication database management and optimizing prescribing. Working in partnership with 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 director-at-large of the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) Executive Committee as well as chair and vice chair of the SOPIT advisory group on Clinical Decision Support and Analytics. Through partnership with ASHP members, he co-authored the first 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 healthcare communication and informatics, and served as a preceptor for residents and student learners. Within his time as director-at-large, Olsen responded to feedback from section membership by providing standard project templates with descriptions and deliverables to help guide and jumpstart work group efforts.
Casey A. Olsen can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large (2025-2027)
Emmanuel N. Enwere, PharmD, MS, CPHIMS, FASHP
Emmanuel N. Enwere is the system director of pharmacy and oncology informatics for the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Enwere leads teams that support pharmacy, oncology and research application systems with data analytics for pharmacy. His teams support informatics services for five cancer center locations nationwide within Los Angeles, Orange County, Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Prior to his current role, Enwere served as the senior pharmacy informatics manager at UTMB Health where he led several transformational initiatives since 2019. Enwere graduated from The University of Texas College of Pharmacy in 2012 with his PharmD degree. He completed a combined pharmacy residency and Masters of Science degree in health-system pharmacy administration and leadership emphasizing pharmacy informatics at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in 2014. Enwere is very passionate about designing systems that help guide healthcare providers to make better clinical decisions that achieve improved patient outcomes. He is currently serving on the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) Advisory Group (SAG) on Educational and Professional Development as the Blog Workgroup lead. He also served as the 2022-2023 chair of the SOPIT SAG on Clinical Decision Support and Analytics (CDSA) and as the CDSA vice chair from 2021-2022. Enwere has been an active SOPIT member since 2015 and is very excited about the continued growth in pharmacy informatics. He is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems and holds several Epic Systems certifications that support pharmacy, oncology and CDS. He has given pharmacy informatics presentations both locally and nationally with peer-reviewed publications.
Emmanuel N. Enwere can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org
Director-at-Large (2026-2028)
Kendall Gross, PharmD, DPLA
Kendall Gross is the Manager of the Pharmacy Informatics and Automation Teams at UCSF Health in San Francisco, CA. She leads an enterprise team of 15 pharmacists and technicians in informatics, automation, and project management. She received her PharmD from the University of Georgia in 2008 and completed residencies in Pharmacy and Critical Care at the University of Kentucky before joining UCSF in 2010. As a clinician, she focused on leveraging technology to drive high-value care and subsequently established UCSF’s first Informatics Specialist role to build on those successes. In her current role, she provides strategic informatics leadership, directs system maintenance for pharmacy-owned technologies, manages shared processes and tools with IT teams, and is responsible for a broad enterprise project portfolio. She supports organizational governance and system strategy and alignment as the Chair of the Pharmacy Informatics Steering Committee, Co-Chair of the IT Medication Management Capability, and statewide as the past Chair of the University of California Automation & Informatics Collaborative. She is also a Volunteer Associate Professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy and an active resident and student preceptor. She has held progressive roles in ASHP and the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) and is currently a member of the SOPIT Executive Committee as the Director-at-Large Elect and the liaison to the Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Clinical Applications. She is the past Chair of the SAG on Clinical Decision Support, where she also led the Get IT Done workgroup and individual SAG project teams. She has presented her work at ASHP Midyear, CSHP Seminar, and in virtual webinar settings.
Kendall Gross can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large Elect (2026-2027)
Samuel U. Ubanyionwu, PharmD, EMBA
Samuel U. Ubanyionwu is a medication management informaticist at Mayo Clinic and an assistant professor of pharmacy at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. In his role, he leads efforts to steward and optimize medication-related content across automated technologies and the electronic health record. He serves as chair of the Mayo Clinic enterprise infusion pump drug library committee and is the primary preceptor for the Core Medication Use Processes rotation within the PGY2 pharmacy informatics residency program. Ubanyionwu earned his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University (TSU), his PharmD from the TSU College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and his EMBA with a focus on strategic leadership from the Valar Institute at Quantic School of Business and Technology. He completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at Harris Health in Houston, Texas and a PGY2 in pharmacy informatics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ubanyionwu has been an active member of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) for over a decade. His leadership experience includes serving as a member, work group lead, vice chair, and chair of the section advisory group (SAG) on Operations and Automation, as well as contributing to the SAG on Clinical Information Systems. He has also served on the Committee on Nominations (CON) for SOPIT and as a two-time chair of the CON for the Section of Digital and Telehealth Practitioners. Ubanyionwu has contributed to webinars, blog posts, podcasts, publications, and technology-focused statements, and currently represents ASHP within the Pharmacy Health Information Technology Collaborative.
Samuel Ubanyionwu can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
ASHP Staff
Scott V. Anderson, PharmD, MS, CPHIMS, FASHP
Scott V. Anderson 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.
Scott V. Anderson can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
