Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will visit the FES Center and meet with Consortium members in mid-April, 2024. Professor Brown is also the Distinguished Speaker for the Center’s April Neural Prosthesis Seminar, set for 3pm on April 11 at the Wolstein Research Building on the Case Western Reserve University campus.
Professor Brown’s NP Seminar presentation, “General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal,” details his team’s research to characterize the neurophysiology of the loss and recovery of consciousness due to propofol and ketamine, how these dynamics change, and how the state of general anesthesia might be rapidly reversed and/or controlled. The Center is also hosting a reception immediately following Professor Brown’s presentation in the lobby of the Wolstein Research Building. These events are open to the public.
In addition to his role as Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, Professor Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Professor Brown received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics (magna cum laude) from Harvard College, his M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University and his M.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his anesthesiology residency at MGH.
Professor Brown is an anesthesiologist-statistician whose research is defining the neuroscience of how anesthetics produce the states of general anesthesia. He also develops statistical methods for neuroscience data analysis. A fellow of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors, Professor Brown is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society. He has received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Applied Mathematics, the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award, the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, and Doctors of Science Honoris Causa from the USC and SUNY Downstate.
The FES Center’s NP Seminar Series is a livestreamed, public educational forum with prominent presenters active in all areas of research. The series brings together researchers, scientists, clinicians and students in the Northeast Ohio Research Community to encourage the exchange of scientific information on global emerging neuromodulation and neurostimulation topics. Find out more about the 2023-2024 program at https://fescenter.org/events/np-seminar-series/.
