Dr Dinah Parums went to grammar school in Derbyshire. In 1977 she won an entrance scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge.
Dinah's pre-clinical studies were in Medical Sciences, University of Cambridge (B.A. (Hons) 1980) & her clinical medical student training was at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University from 1980 to 1983 (B.M., B.Ch. 1983).
DDinah Parums returned to Cambridge in 1984 to do her PhD in Pathology & was a Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1985 to 1987.
Dinah Parums completed her clinical pathology training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford where she was Clinical Tutor in Pathology from 1990 to 1993 & Research Fellow, Wolfson Colleg