Tina Young Poussaint Explained

Tina Young Poussaint
Alma Mater:Yale School of Medicine
Mount Holyoke College
Workplaces:Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

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.[1] Poussaint's father, Lionel W. Young, was a pediatric radiologist and her mother, Florence, is a retired podiatrist.[2] 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.[3] [4] 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.[5]

Research and career

Poussaint completed her residency training in diagnostic radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was the first African American woman to do so.[6] [5] In 1989 she became the first African-American attending physician in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Poussaint joined the Department of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital in 1993.[7] 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.[8] She was made the inaugural Lionel W. Young Chair in Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital.[9]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

Papers

Books

Personal life

Tina Young married Alvin Poussaint in 1992.[11] Her husband is a professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tina Young Poussaint, MD. brainscience. Brain Science Foundation. en-US. 2020-05-31.
  2. Poussaint. Tina Young. 2019-06-01. Lionel W. Young, MD, FACR (1932–2019). Pediatric Radiology. en. 49. 7. 973–974. 10.1007/s00247-019-04424-2. 1432-1998. free.
  3. Web site: Tina Young Poussaint, MD, FACR - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA. www.dana-farber.org. 2020-05-31.
  4. Web site: A friendship endures from Yale to Harvard. Soucheray. Stephanie. Yale School of Medicine. en. 2020-05-31.
  5. Web site: Tina Young Poussaint. Yale School of Medicine. en. 2020-05-31.
  6. Web site: MGH Guides: MGH History: URM & Women Firsts. Sundell-Bahrd. Erik. libguides.massgeneral.org. en. 2020-05-31.
  7. Web site: Tina Young Poussaint, M.D. '83, inducted to American College of Radiology. Yale School of Medicine. en. 2020-05-31.
  8. Poussaint. Tina Young. 2001. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pediatric Brain Tumors: State of the Art. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. en-US. 12. 6. 411–433. 10.1097/00002142-200112000-00004. 11744878. 1536-1004.
  9. Web site: Congratulations Tina Young Poussaint MD, FACR!. 2020-03-10. American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology. en-US. 2020-05-31.
  10. Web site: 2017 ASPNR GOLD MEDAL AWARD. 2017-05-02. American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology. en-US. 2020-05-31.
  11. News: 1992-12-06. WEDDINGS; Tina I. Young, Alvin Poussaint. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-05-31. 0362-4331.
  12. Book: Ebony. 2000. Johnson Publishing Company. en.

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