Pallavi is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon specialising in cataracts, retinal diseases, and vitreoretinal surgery at Hillingdon Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital, London, and an honorary consultant at Western Eye Hospital, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London. Pallavi is a faculty for teaching cataract surgery and examiner at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. She is chief investigator on a research project on retinal disease undertaken for the British Ophthalmic Surveillance Unit and has published several research papers and an invited speaker at many national and international conferences.