Harold G. Koenig
Dr. Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, medical school at the University of California San Francisco and geriatric medicine, psychiatry and biostatistics training (MHSc) at Duke University. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke, and he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the School of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University,...See more
Dr. Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, medical school at the University of California San Francisco and geriatric medicine, psychiatry and biostatistics training (MHSc) at Duke University. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke, and he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the School of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China. He directs Duke University's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health (https: //spiritualityandhealth. duke.edu/) and has done so since its origins in 1998. Dr. Koenig has written more than 500 scientific peer-reviewed academic publications, nearly 100 book chapters and more than 50 books. He has also given testimony before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the current White House Administration on the health benefits of religious faith. In 2012, he received the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and he is the lead author of the Handbook of Religion and Health, 3rd edition (2021, forthcoming, with Harvard University professors Tyler VanderWeele and John R. Peteet). See less
