Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Geriatric Psychiatry

Address:
DUMC 3400
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-620-4070

Office Telephone:
919-681-6633

Fax Telephone:
919-383-6962

• MD, MHSc, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1982

• Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, 1989-1992, 1991-1992

• Geropsychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, 1991-1992

Clinical Interests:
Depression, dementia, psychosis, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders related to aging and/or medical illness, patients with a strong religious background wanting treatment sympathetic to that perspective, patients older than age 55

Research Interests:
My primary research is focused on studying the effects of religion and spirituality on health. I am founding Co-Director of Duke’s Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health.  

For a complete bio and CV, go to the following website: http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/about/hkoenig/index.html

Representative Publications:
Koenig HG (2009). Research on religion, spirituality and mental health: A review. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, May issue (2009)

Huguelet P, Koenig HG. Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (2009)

Koenig HG.  Concerns about measuring “spirituality” in research.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 196(5):349-355 (2008)

Koenig HG.  Medicine, Religion and Health: Where Science & Spirituality Meet. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press (2008)

Koenig HG. An 83-year-old woman with chronic illness and strong religious beliefs.  Journal of the American Medical Association 288 (4): 487-493 (2002)