Graduated from Andhra Medical College in Vishakapatnam in 1982. Completed internship training at Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad in 1983. Pursued a three-year DNB internal medicine training program at Mahavir Hospital & Research Center in Hyderabad.

Enrolled in the MD program for Skin and Venereal Diseases at Osmania Medical College, but discontinued midway. Completed an intensive training course in HIV-AIDS through the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in 1998. Received training as a diabetic care counselor from Moses School of Diabetology at NIMS in Hyderabad in 2001.

Acquired 100 US credit hours through an intensive clinical training program on HIV/AIDS, a collaboration between the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA, and Grant Medical Foundation in India, in 2003. Qualified in a postgraduate diabetic course offered by the American Diabetic Association and Madras Diabetic Research Foundation in Chennai in 2004 and 2006.

Finished a diabetology course at Steno Diabetic Center in Denmark in Agra in 2007.