Constantine Psimopoulos

  • Instructor of Bioethics and Human Flourishing

    Faculty & Senior Administrator

    Initiative on Health, Spirituality & Religion

    Harvard University

Biography

Dr. Constantine or 'Kosti' Psimopoulos is a Greek-American Kinesiologist & Harvard Medical School trained bioethicist. A Visiting Scholar in Medicine and co-Director, Program on Medicine and Religion at UChicago (25-26) and a MacLean Fellow in Clinical Medical Ethics (2026-2027), he has been on faculty at Harvard's Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion, and a research associate at the Human Flourishing program at Harvard Epidemiology (T.H. Chan School of Public Health), with another appointment at the Center for Bioethics (Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School).

He is also co-founder of the Sport and Flourishing research working group as well as the Lifestyle Medicine and Flourishing research group. Author of four book chapters, including oner in Nature Springer on COVID-19 in the Pacific Rim and Beyond looking into Policies, Practices, and Perspectives from Public Health Ethics, a book on global bioethics in the Greek language, and most recently a meta analysis on the protective role of Spirituality in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Serving on the National Advisory Board of the Conference on Medicine and Religion, former President of the Massachusetts Association for Health and Physical Education and having been appointed by the President to serve on a National Committee of SHAPE America, his interests lie on theological bioethics and AI, flourishing, lifestyle medicine and public health ethics.

Dr. Psimopoulos is an ecumenically minded Christian of the Eastern tradition, educated at a Jesuit School, specializing in Catholic Bioethics, who was recently nominated for the International Expanded Reason Award, from the Vatican Foundation and is the recipient of the International Emerging Scholar Award from Sport in Society. An alumnus of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (Dean’s Scholar), he was elected President of Harvard Medical School's Student Council and gave the valedictorian address at his graduation entitled: “In pursuit of A Moral Awakening in Medicine & Healthcare: An ethics of Sympraxis.”

Academic biography

https://constantine.scholars.harvard.edu

Research topics

  1. Bioethics and Human Flourishing
  2. Spirituality and Religion in Medicine and Public Health
  3. Theological/Christian/Catholic Bioethics