Emery N. Brown
| Emery N. Brown | |
|---|---|
| Fields |
Neuroscience Systems Neuroscience Statistics Anesthesiology Computational Neuroscience Bioengineering |
| Institutions |
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for |
Systems Neuroscience Computational Neuroscience Mechanisms of Anesthesia Neural Signal Processing |
| Notable awards |
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the National Academy of Medicine Member of the National Academy of Engineering Guggenheim Fellowship American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award |
Emery Neal Brown, M.D., Ph.D. is an American statistician, neuroscientist and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience; the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the Director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. Brown is one of only 19 individuals who has been elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Brown is also the first African American and first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three National Academies.
Brown grew up in Ocala, Florida, where he attended Fessenden Elementary and Middle Schools, Osceola Junior High School and North Marion High School. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, N.H. in 1974 after spending the second semester of his senior year at Exeter in the School Year Abroad Program studying Spanish in Barcelona, Spain. In 1978, he received his B.A. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics from Harvard College. Following graduation, Brown received an International Rotary Foundation Fellowship to study mathematics at the Institut Fourier des Mathèmatiques Pures in Grenoble, France.
Upon returning from Grenoble, he entered the Harvard Medical School M.D. Ph.D. Program. He received his M.A in 1984 in statistics and his Ph.D. in statistics in 1988 from Harvard University and his M.D. (magna cum laude) in 1987 from Harvard Medical School.
Brown completed his internship in internal medicine in 1989 at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a research fellowship in endocrinology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1992 and his residency in anesthesiology at MGH in 1992. In 1992, Brown joined the staff in the Department of Anesthesia at MGH and the faculty at Harvard Medical School. In 2005 he joined the faculty at MIT.
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