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Patrick Lee Purdon
Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Professor (By courtesy), Bioengineering
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Ph.D., Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Biomedical Engineering (2005)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998)
A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, MA., Engineering Sciences, summa cum laude (1996)
My research integrates neuroimaging, biomedical signal processing, and the systems neuroscience of general anesthesia and sedation.
My group conducts human studies of anesthesia-induced unconsciousness, using a variety of techniques including multimodal neuroimaging, high-density EEG, and invasive neurophysiological recordings used to diagnose medically refractory epilepsy. We also develop novel methods in neuroimaging and biomedical signal processing to support these studies, as well as methods for monitoring level of consciousness under general anesthesia using EEG.
My group conducts human studies of anesthesia-induced unconsciousness, using a variety of techniques including multimodal neuroimaging, high-density EEG, and invasive neurophysiological recordings used to diagnose medically refractory epilepsy. We also develop novel methods in neuroimaging and biomedical signal processing to support these studies, as well as methods for monitoring level of consciousness under general anesthesia using EEG.