MD, MSc, PhD, FEFIM, Visiting Professor
Alina Dima is a clinician with dual specialization in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She currently works at Colentina Clinical Hospital in Bucharest, Romania and serves as a Faculty Member (Visiting Professor) at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest.
During her residency in Internal Medicine, she gained experience at the Clinical Immunology and Rare Diseases Center of Nouvel Hospital Strasbourg, France.
She holds a master’s degree in medical biology and completed her PhD in 2017 focusing on biomarkers for systemic lupus erythematosus. Her doctoral research also included a brief period of study in Aarhus, Denmark, exploring osteonecrosis in lupus patients.
Alina Dima attended the EULAR course of capillaroscopy in Genoa, Italy, in 2016. Further, she completed the EULAR Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSUS) Advanced 2023 in Milan, Italy, achieving Level 1 of the EULAR Competency Assessment. She was granted a EULAR scholarship for the IX EULAR Scientifically Endorsed Course on SLE in Pisa, Italy, in 2019 and a SLEuro scholarship for the SLEuro Advanced Workshop on SLE in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2022.
She also received in 2020 a EULAR scholarship for academic guest at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, where her research focused on systemic sclerosis.
In 2022 Alina Dima became Fellow of the European Federation of Internal Medicine EFIM and since 2024 she is one of the four members of the EFIM Early Career Group Subcommittee.