Tina Young Poussaint
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. She graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honour society. For her graduate studies she moved to Yale School of Medicine, where she first met Valerie E. Stone. In their class at Yale there were three African-American women out of 102 students. As a medical student at Yale Poussaint was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha. She graduated in 1983. Poussaint completed her residency training in diagnostic radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was the first African American woman to do so. In 1989 she became the first African-American attending physician in radiology. Poussaint joined the Department of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital in 1993. She was made director of the Neuroimaging Center for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium at Boston Children's Hospital in 2003. In 2011 Poussaint was made a full professor in radiology at the Harvard Medical School. Her research considers the refinement of magnetic resonance imaging, with a focus on the diagnosis of brain tumors in children. She was made the inaugural Lionel W. Young Chair in Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital. Tina Young married Alvin Poussaint in 1992. Her husband is a professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.
Research and career
Tina Young Poussaint is a professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School and a Neuroradiologist at the Boston Children's Hospital.