Director of Pharmacy
Nikesh Bhika, PharmD, BCPS
As director of pharmacy at UF Health Rehabilitation Hospital – North, Nikesh Bhika, ensures overall safe and effective medication use, along with disseminating medication information to providers and nurses.
Previously, Nikesh was an inpatient clinical pharmacist for four years with Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. He worked in the neurology step-down unit, specializing in strokes, seizures, spinal cord injuries, neuromuscular disorders and other conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
Nikesh holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular and microbiology from the University of Central Florida and a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of South Florida. He completed a PGY-1 residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Florida and is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS).