Harold G. Koenig
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical
Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
B.A. Stanford University
R.N. San Joaquin Delta
M.D. University of
California at San Francisco
M.HSc. Duke University
Dr. Koenig completed 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. He is also a registered nurse (RN).
Dr. Koenig is founder and former director of Duke University’s Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health, and is founding co-director of the current Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center. He has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 300 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and over 35 books in print or in preparation. He is the former editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine and 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, ABC’s World News Tonight, and several times on Good Morning America), over 80 national or international radio programs (including multiple NPR and BBC interviews), and hundreds of national and international newspapers or magazines (including cover stories for Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, and Newsweek). In September 1998, Dr. Koenig was invited to give testimony before the U.S. Senate concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on health. He has been interviewed by James Dobson on Focus on the Family and by Robert Schuller in the Crystal Cathedral on the Hour of Power. Dr. Koenig has been nominated twice for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
His latest books include The Healing Power of Faith (Simon & Schuster, 2001); The Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford University Press, 2001); and his autobiography, The Healing Connection (2004); Faith and Mental Health (2005); In the Wake of Disaster (Templeton Press); Kindness and Joy (2006); Spirituality in Patient Care, 2nd edition (July 2007); and Spirituality and Medicine (2008, forthcoming), all by Templeton Foundation Press. Dr. Koenig travels widely to give workshops and seminar presentations.
