October 29, 2009
Thursday
9:30 am – 12:45 pm

Prosser Auditorium, HUB
Moravian College
Locust & Monocacy Streets

Program Fee: $55
Early Reg. Discount: $45
if registered by 10/16
Contact Hours: 3 (.3 CEU)
Approved by the
• National Board for Certified Counselors
• Pennsylvania Certification Board• • Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.

In recent years, an increasing body of empirical data has confirmed the connection between spiritual and physical well being, and including spirituality in patient care has become less a matter of “whether” than of “how, by whom, and under what circumstances?” In these lectures, Dr. Harold Koenig, one of the world’s leading authorities on the integration of spirituality into health care practice, will explore both the current state of research on this subject and its practical implications for coordinating the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals with the role that chaplains serve in meeting the spiritual needs of patients. 

Harold G. Koenig,  MD, MHSc.  completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and 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 of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Koenig is founder and co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 300 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and nearly 40 books in print or in preparation.  He has given invited testimony to both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the role of religion in public health.