Dr. Dinah Parums is retired. She was previously a freelance medical and science editor, writer, and journalist, since becoming physically disabled. Between September 2018-June 2024, Dinah was Director of DVP Editorial Limited. Dinah has several patents, >120 peer-reviewed publications, >6,900 citations (>125 = highly influential), an H-index of 37, and Google Scholar i10-index of 71. She has >20 years of postgraduate medical teaching experience and has supervised 5 PhD students. Dinah has written and edited a postgraduate medical textbook, Essential Clinical Pathology (Blackwell Science Ltd. Oxford. ISBN 0-632-03088-7). Dinah has worked as a Clinical Editor for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and is currently a peer reviewer for several biomedical journals. Dinah has undergraduate medical degrees from the University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A) and clinical medical degrees from Oxford University Medical School (B.M., B.Ch.). Her Ph.D. in experimental pathology is from the University of Cambridge. Dinah was awarded research fellowships from the British Heart Foundation, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Darwin College, Cambridge. She has also held visiting fellowships in the USA at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Stanford University Medical School. Dinah did her postgraduate specialist training in the Nuffield Department of Pathology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, as Clinical Lecturer and postgraduate Clinical Tutor in Pathology. She was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath) in 1991 and the Fellowship (FRCPath) in 1999, and was also awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) in 1999. She held senior clinical and academic positions at the University of Cambridge, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Imperial College, University of London. Between 1994 and 2002, Dinah was an External Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath) and a member of the US/Canadian Academy of Pathologists (US/CAP). Dinah has >10 years of experience working as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry and as a Principal Pharmaceutical Physician. In support of her role in publications, Dinah continues to be a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), AMWA, EMWA, and ISMPP. She is familiar with current guidelines from the ICMJE, COPE, the AMA Manual of Style, and GPP3/4. Dinah is a 1441 Foundation Member and Henry VI Circle Legacy Group Member of King's College, Cambridge University.