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Kayhan Parsi,JD, PhDKayhan 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 was elected in 2009 to a 3-year term to the Board of Directors of ASBH. He also served as a member of the Public Interest Panel of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education from 2004 to 2006. He served as the chair of the Council of Graduate School Programs at Loyola for the year 2007-2008. In 2009, he was invited to serve as a book review editor for the American Journal of Bioethics.

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 K. "Commitment to Honesty with Patients" and "Commitment to Patient Confidentiality," 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, 2010.
 

Parsi K. Book Review. Teaching Medical Professionalism, RL Cruess, SR Cruess, and Y Steinert (eds), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. New England Journal of Medicine June 2009; 360(24): 2586-7.

 

Parsi K. Book Review: The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, edited by LA Eckenwiler and FG Cohn. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics  April 2009; 18(2), 189-191.
 

Kuczewski M, Parsi K. The Making of a Clinical Ethicist: Reviewing the Big Questions. Health Progress  2009;
90 (2):
 

Parsi K. International Medical Graduates and Global Migration of Physicians: Fairness, Equity, and Justice. The Medscape Journal of Medicine. December 2008.

 

Parsi K, List J. Preparing Medical Students for the World: Service Learning and Global Health Justice. The Medscape Journal of Medicine. November 2008.

 

Muraskas J, Parsi K. The cost of saving the tiniest lives: NICUs versus prevention. Virtual Mentor 2008;10(10):655-58.

 

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.

 

Bauer K, Taub S, Parsi KP.  Ethical Issues in Tissue Banking for Research: A Brief Review of Existing Organizational Policies. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2004; 25: 113-42.

 

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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