Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc.
Dr. Koenig 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 on the faculty at Duke as Professor of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Koenig is co-director of the Center
for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke
University
Medical
Center, and has
published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion,
with over 250 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and 28 books
in print or in preparation. He is
editor of the International Journal of
Psychiatry in Medicine, and is
founder and editor-in-chief of Science and Theology News.
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 and Good Morning America),
80 national or international radio programs, and hundreds of newspapers and
magazines (including cover stories for Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine,
Newsweek, and Time). Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate
concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on health, and has been
interviewed by James Dobson on Focus on the Family and by Robert Schuller on the
Hour of Power.
1. Koenig
HG, George LK, Meador KG (1997). Use
of antidepressants by non-
psychiatrists in the treatment of hospitalized medically ill depressed
elderly patients. American Journal of
Psychiatry 154:1369-1375
2. Koenig
HG, George LK, Peterson BL, Pieper CF (1997).
Depression in medically ill hospitalized older adults: Prevalence,
correlates, and course of symptoms based on six diagnostic schemes. American
Journal of Psychiatry 154:1376-1383
3. Koenig HG,
George LK, Peterson BL (1998). Religiosity
and remission from depression in medically ill older patients.
American Journal of Psychiatry
155:536-542
4. Koenig
HG, Kuchibhatla M (1998). Use of
health services by hospitalized medically ill depressed elderly patients.
American Journal of Psychiatry
1998; 55:871-877
5. Koenig,
H. G. (2002). An 83-year-old
woman with chronic illness and strong religious beliefs.
Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA) 288 (4): 487-493
6. Koenig
HG (2003). Religion,
spirituality and medicine: An American physician’s response. The
Medical Journal of
Australia
178:51-52.
7. Koenig
HG (2003). Religion, spirituality and mental health: History, research, and
clinical applications. Italian Journal
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 13(2/3):55-62
8. Koenig
HG (2004). Religion,
spirituality and medicine. Research
findings and implications for clinical practice.
Southern Medical Journal
97:1194-1200
9. Koenig HG
(2004). Taking a spiritual
history (invited commentary). Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 291:2881
10. Koenig
HG, George LK, Titus P, Meador KG (2004). Religion, spirituality, acute
hospital and long-term care use by older patients.
Archives of Internal Medicine
164:1579-1585