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
Training:
MD, MHSc, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1982
Residency:
Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, 1989-1992, 1991-1992
Fellowship:
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)