Dr. Braz Lima graduated as an MD in 2007 at Souza Marques School of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  She completed her specialization in anesthesiology in 2011 at Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital. In 2010, she spent three months accompanying the Anesthesiology Department of Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, France where she dedicated herself to peripheral nerve blocks with ultrasonography. She worked as an anesthesiologist until 2014, when she began her postgraduate studies in Pain Medicine at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.  She did her fellowship in interventional pain medicine from 2015-2016 at Singular in Campinas, Brazil.  For one month in 2016 she assisted Dr. Sudhir Diwan in New York City, USA. She is a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP / WIP), a Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS / WAPMU), and she also received Pain MSK Ultrasound Certification (PMUC / ASRA).

Currently she works at her private clinic, Lotus – Pain Management Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  She is part of the clinical staff for pain management at Glória D’or Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, publisher of the Oncological Pain Treaty, published in 2019, with participation in several other works.

Dr Braz Lima is a former director of Sobramid (Brazilian Society of Interventional Pain Physicians), and post-graduate professor in Interventional Pain Medicine at Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been organizing, teaching and speaking at several congresses including PSI (Pain School International – Budapest).