She completed her medical degree in India at the University of Pune. Dr. Iyer continued her education with a general surgery internship and an ophthalmology residency at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She also completed two additional ophthalmology residencies at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and at the Medical Research Foundation in Chennai, India. Dr. Iyer then performed a glaucoma research fellowship at the University of Florida and a cornea and refractive surgery fellowship at the Doheny Eye Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).