The Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture is sponsored annually by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) and honors the lecture’s namesake, who was a pioneer in American anesthesiology.
This year’s distinguished guest is Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Anesthetist, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, Dr. Brown is also the Director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. Dr. Brown was born in Florida, graduated with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard College, an A.M. in Statistics at Harvard University, an M.D. in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in Statistics at Harvard University. Dr. Brown completed an internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1988 and a residency in anesthesiology at the MGH...
