Dr. Kodiyanplakkal received her undergraduate degree from Yale University. She received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and continued to complete her internal medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center. She then went to Columbia University Medical Center for her fellowship training in adult Infectious Diseases before joining the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Kodiyanplakkal's clinical interests are in the treatment of viral, fungal, and bacterial infections in immunocompromised hosts. She also conducts clinical research focused on viral and bacterial infections in transplant recipients.