Tina Young Poussaint is a professor of radiology at the

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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

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. Poussaint's father, Lionel W. Young, was a pediatric radiologist and her mother, Florence, is a retired podiatrist. Poussaint earned a

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in mathematics and biology at

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. She graduated

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and was elected to the

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honour society. For her graduate studies she moved to

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, where she first met

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. In their class at Yale there were three African-American women out of 102 students. As a medical student at

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Poussaint was elected to the

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. She graduated in 1983.

Research and career

Poussaint completed her residency training in diagnostic radiology at the

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, and was the first African American woman to do so. 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. 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

. Her research considers the refinement of

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, 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.

Awards and honours

* 2010 President of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology * 2013 Inducted as a Fellow into the

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* 2017 American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology Gold Medal Award

Selected publications

Papers

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Books

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Personal life

Tina Young married Alvin Poussaint in 1992. Her husband is a professor of

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at the

References

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