I am from Mysore, Karnataka. After finishing MBBS from Mysore Medical College in 2001, I moved to AIIMS, New Delhi to pursue MD in general medicine and completed it in 2005. I have worked as a senior resident in the department of internal medicine in PGI, Chandigarh. I continued there later as a senior medical officer in the antiretroviral therapy centre, before joining JIPMER in Jan 2010.