Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. 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 (MGH).

Emery 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. Emery completed his internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his anesthesiology residency at MGH.

Emery is an anesthesiologist-statistician whose research is defining the neuroscience of how anesthetics produce the states of general anesthesia. He also develops signal processing for neuroscience data analysis.

Emery is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences,  National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science.