He earned his medical degree and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India. Dr. Kukkar has completed three fellowships in orthopaedic disciplines: a joint replacement fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, New York; a musculoskeletal oncology fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; and is a graduate of the E. Shannon Stauffer Spine Fellowship Program at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois.