Tina Young Poussaint is a professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School and a Neuroradiologist at the Boston Children's Hospital.
[1] Poussaint's father, Lionel W. Young, was a pediatric radiologist and her mother, Florence, is a retired podiatrist.
[5] Poussaint completed her residency training in diagnostic radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was the first African American woman to do so.
[7] She was made director of the Neuroimaging Center for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium at Boston Children's Hospital in 2003.
[4][6] Her research considers the refinement of magnetic resonance imaging, with a focus on the diagnosis of brain tumors in children.