Inside Duke Medicine
Koenig in the House
posted September 18th, 2008
Harold Koenig, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center and associate professor of medicine, was scheduled to testify yesterday in Washington, D.C., at a hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee’s subcommittee on research and science education.
Koenig—founder and former director of Duke’s Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health and founding co-director of the current Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center—was to offer an overview of original research published in social, psychological, behavioral, nursing and medical journals since the 1800s examining relationships between religion/spirituality and health.
Koenig was to discuss what the research implies for improving public health and patient care, promoting community resiliency following natural disasters or acts of terrorism, and easing the economic burden of providing health care and protecting our population.