Emery N. Brown received his B.A. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics from Harvard College, his M.A. in statistics from Harvard University, his M.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his residency in anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He joined the faculty at MGH and Harvard Medical School in 1992 and the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005.

Dr. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at MIT, the associate director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the co-director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program at MIT. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at MGH, and an anesthesiologist at MGH.