Emery N. Brown Awarded CMU’s Dickson Prize in Science

Renowned scientist will lecture on "The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia," Jan. Carnegie Mellon University will award the Dickson Prize in Science to Dr. Emery N. Brown, an esteemed anesthesiologist, neuroscientist and statistician. He is the Edward Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a practicing anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Brown will deliver the Dickson Prize Lecture, "The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia," and receive a medal and cash prize at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the Tepper Building's Simmons Auditorium A. The event is free and open to the public. "My goal is to provide every patient requiring surgery precisely controlled, side-effect free general anesthesia," Brown said. The Dickson Prize winner leads an interdisciplinary, multi-institute team in Boston that studies the neuroscience of general anesthesia.