After graduating from medical school at EVMS Dr. Kannarkat did her internal medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she developed two passions: teaching and the clinical care of the elderly. She completed a Geriatrics Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and took on an additional year of HRSA funded advanced fellowship training to obtain key clinician educator skills. On returning to EVMS in 2011 she was named as the Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine. As the Clerkship Director and a clinician-educator she has developed and implemented a simulation curriculum, enhanced evaluation through graded and non-graded assessments and modified didactics to an active learning format.