Theonia K. Boyd, MD
Theonia Boyd is a pediatric pathologist in the Department of Pathology at Children’s Hospital Boston, affiliate pathologist in the Women’s and Perinatal Division of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She is also the pediatric pathology fellowship training program director at Children’s Hospital. Her primary academic interest is in perinatal pathology; namely, disorders of the fetus, placenta and mother. She has served as an expert witness in medical malpractice cases since 1996, predominantly involving unexpected untoward birth outcomes. As her initial medical ethics project, she is interested in defining the ethical bounds of expert witness testimony in medical malpractice.
