Adult Critical Care & Emergency Medicine
Preceptor Information

Critical Care

Zachary Drabick, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCPz

Zachary Drabick, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, is a clinical specialist in the burn, ENT, and plastics intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital.

Dr. Drabick received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2014. He completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at University Health in Shreveport, LA, and his PGY2 Critical Care Residency at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC. Prior to joining UF Health, he previously worked as a Clinical Coordinator at the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics.

Dr. Drabick acts as a preceptor for the Burn ICU elective rotation. His areas of interest include infectious disease management, pharmacokinetic dosing, sedation/analgesia, and nutrition in critically ill burn patients.


Amir Kamel, PharmD, BCNSPIMG_3361-M (1)

Amir Kamel, PharmD, BCNSP, is a clinical specialist in nutrition support and critical care at the UF Health Shands Hospital and is a clinical assistant professor at the University Of Florida College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Kamel received his Doctor of Pharmacy from Arnold and Marie College of Pharmacy Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY.  He completed his pharmacy practice residency at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY and a specialty residency in nutrition support and critical care at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA. He is an active member of the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

His areas of interest include nutrition in critical illness, micronutrient deficiencies, and urea cycle disorders.


Rachel LeClair, PharmD, BCCCP

Rachel LeClair, PharmD, BCCCP is a clinical specialist in the neuromedicine intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. Dr. LeClair received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of South Carolina. She completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville, TN and her PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Prisma Health Richland in Columbia, SC. 

Dr. LeClair serves as the primary preceptor for the neuromedicine and neurosurgical ICU rotation. Her areas of interest include CNS infection management, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and status epilepticus.


Angad Sodhi, PharmD

Angad Sodhi, PharmD, is a clinical specialist in the Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. Dr. Sodhi graduated with his PharmD from Purdue university and completed both a PGY1 in pharmacy practice and PGY2 in critical care at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Dr. Sodhi serves as the primary preceptor for the Cardiovascular Surgery ICU elective rotation. His current areas of interest include anticoagulation in the ICU, antiplatelet management in vascular disease, infectious diseases, and pain management in the ICU. 


Erica Allen, PharmD

Erica Allen, PharmD, is a clinical specialist in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. Dr. Allen received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Purdue University.

She completed her pharmacy practice residency at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital and a specialty residency in critical care at Froedtert Hospital, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Allen acts as a primary preceptor for the Surgical Intensive Care Unit rotation. Her areas of interest include sedation/analgesia, liver disease, shock management, drug pharmacokinetics, and infectious diseases management of critically ill patients.


Anastasia Engeleit, PharmD

Anastasia Engeleit

Anastasia Engeleit, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacy specialist in the medical intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. Dr. Engeleit received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Jacksonville, FL. She completed her PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice residency and her PGY2 Critical Care residency at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy and UI Health in Chicago, IL. 

Dr. Engeleit serves as a primary preceptor for the medical intensive care unit rotations. Her areas of interest include care of analgesia and sedation management, shock states, ACLS, and infectious diseases in the critically ill and immunosuppressed populations. 


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Bethany Shoulders, PharmD, BCCCP works as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and serves as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. Dr. Shoulders received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2014 and completed a PGY1 residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and a PGY2 Critical Care residency with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. 

Since joining the faculty in 2016, she has maintained a collaborative clinical practice site and was awarded the Exemplary Clinician Award in 2022. Her professional interests include completing quality improvement projects and research related to antimicrobial use in the ICU and surgical patient populations and advocating for a personalized approach to patient care. She is also an active member of SCCM, ACCP, FSHP/ASHP, and AACP. 


Kaitlin Alexander, PharmD

Kaitlin Alexander
Kaitlin Alexander, PharmD

Kaitlin Alexander, PharmD is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, and surgery/critical care clinical specialist. 

Dr. Alexander graduated from the University of Florida with her Doctor of Pharmacy degree then completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at West Virginia University Healthcare, followed by a PGY-2 Residency specializing in critical care at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Prior to her appointment at the University of Florida, she was an Associate Clinical Professor at the Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy and trauma/surgery clinical specialist the University of South Alabama University Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. 

Dr. Alexander is an active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). Her professional interests, include: the management of pain, agitation and delirium in the ICU, infectious diseases, and trauma & acute care surgery critical care management.


Gabrielle Bradley, PharmD, BCPS 

Gabriella Bradley

Gabrielle Bradley, PharmD, BCPS, is a clinical pharmacy specialist in the thoracic and lung transplant intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. 

Dr. Bradley received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Ferris State University College of Pharmacy in Big Rapids, MI. She completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY2 Critical Care Residency at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. 

Dr. Bradley serves as a preceptor for the elective thoracic and lung transplant ICU rotation. Her areas of interest include management of pain, agitation and delirium in the ICU, pharmacokinetic alterations during ECMO support, and infectious diseases in the critically ill populations.


Emergency Medicine

Rusha Patel, PharmD, BCPS

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Rusha Patel, PharmD, BCPS, is a clinical specialist in emergency medicine at UF Health Shands Hospital and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Patel received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Florida. Dr. Patel completed her pharmacy practice residency at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and a specialty residency in emergency medicine at Lakeland Regional Health. Prior to joining the UF Health Team, she worked as an emergency medicine pharmacist at Yale New Haven Hospital, held an appointment as a lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine, and was a clinical assistant professor at the University Of Connecticut College Of Pharmacy.

Her areas of interest include toxicology, resuscitation and education.

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