Harold G. Koenig, MD, 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 now on the faculty at Duke as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and associate professor of medicine.

Dr. Koenig is director and founder of the Center Religion, Theology, and Health at Duke University. He has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with nearly 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and over twenty-five books in print or in preparation. He is editor of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, a referred medical research journal.

His research on religion, health, and ethical issues in medicine has been featured on close to fifty national and international TV news programs (including all major U.S. news networks), eighty national or international radio programs (including multiple NPR, BBC, and CBC interviews), and nearly two hundred national or international newspapers or magazines (including Reader’s Digest and cover stories of Newsweek and Parade magazine).

Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on health, and has been nominated twice for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Upcoming Speaking Events:

6th Annual Bridging Healing and Spirituality Conference - 3/19/2010
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Title: Exploring the Connection between Spirituality and Medicine
Contact Info: St. Petersburg College

Books related to this author:

Faith and Mental Health Harold G. Koenig, MD	Faith in the Future Harold G. Koenig, MD and Douglas M. Lawson, PhD with Malcolm McConnell	Healing Connection, The Harold G. Koenig, MD
In the Wake of Disaster Dr. Harold G. Koenig, MD	Kindness and Joy Harold G. Koenig, MD	Medicine, Religion, and Health Harold G. Koenig, MD
Parish Nursing Verna Benner Carson and Harold G. Koenig	Purpose and Power in Retirement Harold G. Koenig MD	Spiritual Caregiving Verna Benner Carson and Harold G. Koenig
Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice Edited by Verna Benner Carson and Harold G. Koenig	Spirituality in Patient Care Harold G. Koenig, MD	Spirituality in Patient Care Harold G. Koenig, MD