Emery Brown
Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT; the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Brown received his BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, his MA and PhD in statistics from Harvard University, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. Brown is an anesthesiologist-statistician recognized for developing signal processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis and for defining the neurophysiological mechanisms of general anesthesia. Brown was a member of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Working Group. He received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Sacks Award, the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award, the Dickson Prize in Science and the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. For further information click here.
Talk Title: Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia