Researcher | Research Overview
Tina Young Poussaint, MD is Director of the Neuroimaging Center (NIC) for the multi-institutional Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), at Boston Children's Hospital. The PBTC, consisting of 11 participating institutions, is dedicated to conducting novel phase 1 and 2 clinical evaluations of new therapeutic drugs, new biological therapies, treatment delivery technologies, and radiation treatment strategies in children from infancy to 21 years of age with primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
The Neuroimaging Center ensures that neuroimaging studies (including MR and PET) and quality assurance procedures — along with the data analysis of these imaging studies — are standard among all of the institutions. The NIC also sees that the PBTC is able to incorporate imaging endpoints into its overall research program and to develop correlative imaging research plans related to the novel therapeutic interventions employed.
Researcher | Research Background
Tina Young Poussaint is Radiologist-in-Chief and the Lionel W. Young Chair in Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and received her medical degree from Yale University. She completed a residency in diagnostic radiology and fellowship training in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.