Instructor in Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School

Investigator, Instructor (M) Anes Research Brown MGPO, Mass General Research Institute

B.Sc. in Biochemistry University of Santiago de Chile 2002

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences University of Chile 2008

analgesia; anesthesia general; arousal; cerebral cortex; consciousness; thalamo-cortical network; thalamus

I am an Instructor and Researcher at the Anesthesia Department in the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. I am also a Research Scientist at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I earned a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and the Professional Title of Biochemist from the University of Santiago de Chile, and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Chile.

My reserach interest are primarily related to the mechanisms by which general aensthetic drugs produce loss of cosnciousness:

• PK-PD models of the effects of anesthetic drugs on cortical dynamics.

• Role of thalamocortical circuits in loss and recovery of consciousness.

• Effects of anesthetic drugs on the network dynamics of cortical neurons.

• Non-pharmacological approches for modulation of arousal states.