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 Kayhan P. Parsi, J.D., Ph.D.
Email: kparsi@lumc.edu
Fax: 708-327-9209
Neiswanger
Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Loyola University Chicago
Stritch School of Medicine
2160 S. First Ave., Bldg. 120, Rm. 280
Maywood, IL 60153
Kayhan Parsi
is an Associate
Professor of Bioethics & Health Policy at the Neiswanger Institute for
Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of
Medicine, having
joined the faculty in January, 2002. He is the Graduate Program Director of the
online
master’s program in bioethics. In the graduate program, he
teaches courses on Justice and Health Care and Principles of Health Care
Ethics; he has taught Biomedical Ethics and the Law and has co-taught
Religion and Bioethics with Fr. Kevin O'Rourke.
He is a co-course director for Patient-Centered
Medicine for the first year medical students at Stritch and is also a small
group facilitator for both PCM-1 and PCM-3. He is also the assistant course
director for a course on ethics and biomedical sciences, and sits on the
ethics committee and the Institutional Review Board at LUMC. He also holds
an adjunct appointment in Loyola’s School of Law.
From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Institute for Ethics at the
American Medical Association, serving as a Fellow, Medical Ethics Education
Specialist, Associate Director of Academic Affairs, and Director of Academic Affairs.
As Director of Academic Affairs, Dr. Parsi supervised the Institute's
Fellowship and Externship Programs, as well as the seminar and lecture series.
He was a senior editor for the Virtual Mentor, the online ethics journal of
the AMA. He has published in a variety of areas and
has interests in medical ethics education, professionalism and professional ethics, and
the history of medicine and bioethics. He has
been an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School and UIC College of
Medicine. He regularly makes presentations at
various bioethics conferences, both regionally and nationally.
He was elected in 2006 and
re-elected in 2007 to the nominating committee of the American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities, the major professional organization for
bioethicists and medical humanities scholars in the United States.He also served as a member of the Public
Interest Panel of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education from 2004
to 2006. He is currently serving as the chair of the Council of Graduate
School Programs at Loyola for the year 2007-2008.
He received a BA in history from Rice University, a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, and a PhD in medical humanities from the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston. He has worked as an associate for a medical malpractice
law firm, a research assistant in the Program on Legal and Ethical Issues in
Correctional Health at UTMB-Galveston, and as a consultant-in-residence for the Division of
Bioethics, Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He also held the Medical
Jurisprudence Fellowship at the Institute for the
Medical Humanities from 1996 to 1997.
In the summer of 2005, Dr. Parsi
participated in a Loyola-sponsored immersion trip to East Africa. These
immersion trips provide Loyola's faculty, staff, administrators and trustees
with an opportunity to deepen and expand their commitment to justice,
further understanding of social suffering, and promote the infusion of
social justice issues into the culture and classrooms of the University. Dr.
Parsi wrote about his experience in a perspective piece that appeared in the
Chicago Tribune on July 24, 2005.
Selected Publications
Parsi KP. Honesty with
Patients, The Perspective from a Bioethicist and Attorney. In
Professionalism in Medicine: The Case-Based Guide for Medical Students,
Spandorfer J, Pohl C, Rattner S & Nasca T, editors.. New York: Cambridge
University Press; Expected publication 2008.
Parsi KP. Media and Health:
Are Bioethicists Just Another Interest Group? The American Journal of
Bioethics 2007; August 7(8): 18-9.
Parsi KP.
Duty to
Treat: Conscience and Pluralism. Virtual Mentor 2007; 9:
362-64.
Parsi KP. Kuczewski MG.
Failure to thrive: Can Education Save the Life of Ethics Consultation?
The American Journal of Bioethics 2007; 7(2): 37.
Parsi KP, Sheehan MN, editors.
Healing as
Vocation: A Medical
Professionalism Primer. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield; 2006.
Parsi KP.
Revolutionaries
in Black Robes. ASBH Exchange Spring 2006; 9(2): 3.
Parsi KP. Bioethics Consultation in the
Private Sector: What is an Appropriate Model. HEC Forum 2005; 17(2):
135-145.
Parsi KP, Geraghty K. Cancer, Surgical Techniques. In Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Technology,
Hempstead C, Worthington W, editors. . New
York: Routledge; 2005. p. 127-28.
Kao AK, Parsi KP. Content Analyses of Oaths
Administered at US Medical Schools in 2000. Academic Medicine Vol. 79,
No. 9. September 2004.
Parsi KP, Geraghty KE, The Bioethicist as
Public Intellectual. American Journal of Bioethics 2004 Winter;4(1):17-23.
http://www.bioethics.net/journal/pdf/4_1_IF_w17_Parsi.pdf
Egan E, Parsi KP, Ramirez
C. Comparing Ethics Education in Medicine and Law: Combining the Best of
Both Worlds. Annals of Health Law 2004 Winter;13(1):303-25.
Parsi KP. To Err is Human:
Understanding the Data. Virtual Mentor March 2004. Available at:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/12048.html
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