Tina Young Poussaint

Tina Young Poussaint is a professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School and a Neuroradiologist at the Boston Children's Hospital. In 2010 she served as president of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology.

Early life and education Poussaint was born in Rochester, New York. Poussaint's father, Lionel W. Young, was a pediatric radiologist and her mother, Florence, is a retired podiatrist. Poussaint earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and biology at Mount Holyoke College. In their class at Yale there were three African-American women out of 102 students.

Research and Professional Career Poussaint completed her residency in diagnostic radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, becoming the first African American woman to do so. She was made director of the Neuroimaging Center for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium at Boston Children's Hospital in 2003. She was made the inaugural Lionel W. Young Chair in Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital. In December 2024, Poussaint was elected to the board of directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), where she serves as the board liaison for publications.

Awards and honours

2010 President of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology

Selected publications

Papers

Books

Personal life Tina Young married Alvin Poussaint in 1992. Her husband was a professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.