She received her MD with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Public Health from Boston University with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She completed her residency and fellowship training in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Upadhya has provided care to adolescents in school based settings throughout Baltimore and Washington DC since her fellowship training. She is a member of the Baltimore City Health Department’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, the Advocacy committee of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and serves as Chair of the Adolescent Health Working Group (AHWG) for the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.