Dr. Harold G. Koenig
Harold
G. Koenig, MD, MHSc is Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology
and Health;
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; and
Associate Professor of Medicine — all at Duke
University.
Harold completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his
medical school training at the University of California at San
Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics
training at Duke University Medical Center. He is board certified in
general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine, and is
also a registered nurse.
Harold is founder and former director of Duke University’s Center
for
the Study of Religion, Spirituality, and Health, and is now Director of
Duke’s current Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health. He has
published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and
religion, with over 350 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book
chapters and nearly 40 books in print or in preparation. He is the
former editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Psychiatry in
Medicine, and is on the editorial boards of many professional
journals.
His research on religion, health, and ethical issues in medicine has
been
featured on over 50 national and international TV news programs
(including The Today Show, ABC’s World News Tonight, and several times
on
Good Morning America), over 100 national or international radio programs
(including multiple NPR and BBC interviews), hundreds of national and
international newspapers or magazines (including cover stories for
Reader’s Digest, Parade Magazine, and Newsweek), and is considered by
biomedical scientists one of the
world’s top experts on religion and
health.
Harold has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (September 1998) and
the U.S. House of Representatives (September 2008) concerning the
effects of religious involvement on public health, and has been
interviewed by James Dobson on Focus on the Family and by Robert
Schuller in the Crystal Cathedral on the Hour of Power. He has
been nominated twice for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
His latest books include
The Healing Power of Faith: How Belief and Prayer Can Help You
Triumph
Over Disease
(Simon & Schuster,
2001);
The Link between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the
Faith Factor (2002);
Counseling Families Across the Stages of Life: A Handbook for Pastors
and Other Helping Professionals (2002);
New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed
and
Those Who Love Them (2003);
his autobiography,
The Healing Connection: The Story of a Physician’s Search for the
Link between Faith and Health
(2004);
Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for Healing
(2005);
In the Wake of Disaster: Religious Responses to Terrorism and
Catastrophe
(Templeton Press, 2006);
Faith In The Future: Healthcare, Aging and the Role of
Religion (2007);
Spirituality in Patient Care, 2nd edition (2007);
Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality
Meet (2008) published
by Templeton
Foundation
Press;
Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice, Revised edition
(2009),
Pastoral Care of Alcohol Abusers (2009), and
The Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford University Press,
2011).
Harold travels widely to give workshops and seminar
presentations in the United States and around the world.
Watch
A Sense of Purpose,
Medical Mysteries: Dr. Harold Koenig, and Spirituality, religion and health parts 1,
2,
3, and 4.