She is the third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank, after Surgeon Vice Admiral Punita Arora and Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay.

[2] Kanitkar serves on the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

Post that she underwent training in Pediatric Nephrology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

On 28 January 2017, she assumed the office of Dean and Deputy Commandant of her alma-mater Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.

The Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) and her husband pipped the epaulettes of her new rank.