Niharika Suchak, MD
FSU College of Medicine
Dr. Niharika Suchak is a clinician-educator and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine (FSUCOM) in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. Suchak received her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the University of Poona’s Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India. She earned her master’s in clinical epidemiology at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and completed her internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at Baltimore’s Union Memorial Hospital. She is board certified through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Dr. Suchak serves as the Director of Clinical Programs and Electives, Director of Interprofessional Education, and Director of the geriatrics rotation for Internal Medicine residents at FSUCOM. In addition, she serves as the Director of Medical Education and Research for Big Bend Hospice (BBH) in Tallahassee, Florida. She previously served as Director of Year 1 Clinical Skills at FSUCOM for several years. She has extensive clinical and leadership experience including clinical program development in a multitude of health care environments. She has provided and coordinated patient care in a variety of settings including office, hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, hospice, assisted living, and house calls. She has previously organized geriatrics consultation programs with sub-specialties such as oncology, surgery, orthopedics, and gynecology. Dr. Suchak is Lean Six Sigma certified at the Green Belt level through the American Association for Lean Six Sigma Certification (AALSSC), and practices continuous quality improvement principles and applies six sigma methodology to project creation, completion, and analysis.