Mysuru: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, has awarded Ph.D in Public Health Dentistry to Dr. Sushi Kadanakuppe for her thesis ‘A life course approach to assessing the relationship between biological, behavioural, socio-economic, psychosocial conditions and utilisation of oral health services and chronic oral diseases in adolescents attending schools of Bengaluru city’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. S.S. Hiremath, Professor and HoD of Public Health Dentistry, The Oxford Dental College, Bommanahalli, Bengaluru.

Dr. Sushi Kadanakuppe is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of  Public Health Dentistry, D.S. Dental College and Hospital. She is the daughter of city-based writer Shivaram Kadanajuppe.