Dr. Bhatti graduated from Texas A&M University in with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Nutritional Sciences and a minor in Philosophy. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) from Baylor College of Medicine where she was inducted into The Gold Humanism Honor Society. She completed General Psychiatry Residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern and specialty fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians/Weill Cornell School of Medicine joint training program.