Dinah Parums

Dinah Parums attended grammar school in Derbyshire and won an entrance scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge in 1977. Dinah did her pre-clinical studies in Medical Sciences at the University of Cambridge (B.A. (Hons) 1980 and her clinical medical student training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University from 1980 to 1983 (B.M., B.Ch.).

Dr Dinah Parums returned to Cambridge in 1984 to do her PhD in Pathology. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Dinah completed her clinical pathology training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford where she was Clinical Tutor in Pathology from 1990 to 1993 and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford from 1990 to 1993.

In 1991, Dr Dinah Parums passed the examination for Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath) and in 1999, she was awarded the Fellowship (FRCPath).

In 1993, she was appointed as Senior Lecturer/Consultant in the Department of Histopathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

In her career as a Consultant, Dr Dinah Parums has done clinical work, teaching and research in the NHS and U.K. universities (Cambridge, Oxford, Newcastle and London). From 1995 to 2002, she was an External Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists.

Dinah has taught pre-clinical and clinical medical students, organised postgraduate teaching courses and she has supervised postgraduate research students (MSc, MPhil and PhD). She has more than 40 peer reviewed scientific and clinical publications, has contributed to books and periodicals, has worked as an editor for a number of journals and has edited a course textbook in Pathology.

Since 1996, Dr Dinah Parums has worked with industry in the areas of cardiovascular and oncology research (translational science); her last position in the pharmaceutical industry was as Principal Pharmaceutical Physician/Pathologist in Discovery Medicine, Oncology.