Dr Alina Buture is a practising neurologist, currently undertaking a PhD Programme at the Hull York Medical School. Her research interest is focused on exploring and optimizing the diagnosis of cluster headache by developing and evaluating a screening tool for early disease detection. She worked as a Research Fellow in Headache at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust under the supervision of Dr Fayyaz Ahmed before recently joining the neurology team at the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. She finished training in neurology in 2014 in Bucharest, Romania.