Dayanjan Shanaka Wijesinghe, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy and founding director of the Digital Health Lab. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry from the VCU School of Medicine. Dr. Wijesinghe leads the Digital Health concentration within the PharmD program and serves as faculty mentor for Pharmacists for Digital Health (PDH), the first student organization in the country dedicated to digital health innovation. He teaches courses in digital health application development, data science, artificial intelligence, extended reality and healthcare innovation. As director of the Digital Health Laboratory, he mentors both Ph.D. and Pharm.D. students in the development and deployment of digital health and AI applications to enhance healthcare delivery and education. His professional and research interests include digital health innovation, artificial intelligence and extended reality in healthcare and education, metabolomics, and precision medicine. He has successfully mentored both Ph.D. and Pharm.D. students in developing and deploying real-world healthcare solutions, including AI-powered educational platforms that enhance student learning through personalized instruction and assessment.

Anne Masich, Pharm.D.

Anne Masich, Pharm.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy and practices in adult internal medicine at VCU Health. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from VCU School of Pharmacy before completing a combined PGY1/PGY2 Pharmacotherapy Residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She co-coordinates and teaches in the Infectious Diseases Clinical Therapeutics Module and the Pharmacy Skills Lab. She serves as an adult internal medicine preceptor for VCU Health PGY1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY2 Internal Medicine residents. Additionally, Masich serves as an assistant director of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care. Her professional and research interests include infectious diseases, internal medicine, interprofessional education, and scholarship of teaching and learning.