Destiny Tolliver

Destiny Tolliver is a pediatrician and health services researcher at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. She attended Yale as an undergraduate, where she majored in Linguistics. She then completed medical school at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and then completed residency and chief residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. Throughout residency, she partnered with other trainees and faculty to develop and implement Health Equity Rounds, a longitudinal case-based conference that discusses how bias and racism impact patient care. Following chief residency, she completed a health services research fellowship at the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale School of Medicine, where she obtained her Master’s of Health Sciences. Dr. Tolliver then returned to Boston as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, where she serves as a primary care pediatrician in the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic in addition to her research. Dr. Tolliver’s research is focused on how criminal legal system involvement impacts children and families, and what policies and practices work to improve health outcomes for these children.