She is a board certified internist and palliative care physician. She completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and an internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She received a medical degree from Topiwala National Medical College at the University of Mumbai, India, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. In 2014, Dr. Rajpathak was named as an inspirational leader in hospice and palliative medicine under the age of 40 by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.