Nima grew up in Canada, completing her undergraduate training in British Columbia, before moving to Australia to complete her medical training. After fulfilling her Australian College of Emergency Medicine requirements in 2011, Nima completed her College of Intensive Care Medicine Fellowship requirements in early 2015. She is trained in critical care echocardiography, ECMO, paediatric care, and has spent the last year of her training as a Critical Care Fellow at The Austin ICU, the state spinal and liver transplant centre.

Nima returned in 2022 from sabbatical at Toronto General Hospital in Canada where she was exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on one of the country’s busiest ECMO services.