Kavita completed her undergraduate medical training with honours at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. She completed her Radiation Oncology specialty training in Sydney. She then undertook a clinical radiation oncology fellowship in Toronto, Canada. She has practiced as a consultant radiation oncologist in Sydney and the Gold Coast. She returned to Sydney and joined Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in 2016.

She treats breast cancer and gynaecological cancer subsites and is a member of these multidisciplinary teams. She is also currently the director of training of the radiation oncology specialty trainees who are a part of the Northern NSW Training Network of RANZCR.

She also lectures for the oncology-based education sessions for the medical students of the University of Sydney.