Alina Dima MD, MSc, PhD, FEFIM

Alina Dima is a clinician with dual specialization in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She currently works at Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, and serves as a Faculty Member (Visiting Professor) at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.

During her residency in Internal Medicine, she trained 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 short research period in Aarhus, Denmark, exploring osteonecrosis in lupus patients.

Alina Dima attended the EULAR Capillaroscopy Course in Genoa, Italy, in 2016. She later completed the EULAR Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSUS) Advanced Course in Milan, Italy, in 2023, achieving Level 1 of the EULAR Competency Assessment. She was awarded 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. In 2020, she also received a EULAR scholarship as an academic guest at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, where her research focused on systemic sclerosis.

Since 2022, she has been a Fellow of the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM), and since 2024, a member of the EFIM Early Career Group Subcommittee.