Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C
Title/s: Professor & Graduate Program Director
Email: kparsi@luc.edu
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Bioethics & Health Policy at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago, having joined the faculty in January, 2002. He is also the director of the graduate programs in bioethics (certificate, master’s, and doctoral degrees), which are delivered primarily online. The bioethics graduate programs have grown to be one of the most thriving graduate programs at Loyola, having graduated many successful alumni. He is the moderator for Loyola Bioethics Live, a monthly program where Loyola faculty, students and guests discuss their work in an informal online format. In 2018, he was named Graduate Faculty Member of the Year at Loyola University Chicago.
He has served as 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 serves on the LUHS ethics committee and is an ethics consultant for LUHS. He became certified in 2019 by the HCEC Certification Commission and now holds the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) credential.
He has published in a variety of areas and has interests in clinical ethics, medical ethics education, professionalism and professional ethics, global health and justice, media and bioethics, the history of medicine and bioethics, and autism and neurodiversity. He has been an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School and UIC College of Medicine.
Dr. Parsi 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 was elected in 2015 to serve a two-year term as Treasurer of ASBH. He was elected in 2019 as president-elect of ASBH. He began a two-year term as President of ASBH in October, 2021.
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. He became chair of the Committee on Academic Rank and Tenure (CART) for the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 2016.
In 2009, he was invited to serve as a book review editor for the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB). In 2012, he was invited to serve as an associate editor for AJOB, one of the highest impact journals in bioethics. In 2020, he started moderating AJOB webinars on a variety of topics. More recently, he has been quoted in various media outlets, such as Forbes, Insider, and BMJ. He was also quoted in Medical Ethics Advisor about the Joint Commission’s decision to update its ethics standard (“The [hospital] develops and implements a process that allows staff, [patients], and families to address ethical issues or issues prone to conflict.”)
From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association (AMA). As Director of Academic Affairs, he 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 (now the AMA Journal of Ethics).
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PUBLICATIONS
Parsi K. Have We Finally Amused Ourselves to Death? The Triumph of Entertainment Values over Civic Virtues Bioethics Today, Nov. 18, 202
Ray K, Blumenthal-Barby J, Parsi K, Magnus, D. (2024). The Future of Bioethics: Striving for a More Diverse and Inclusive Bioethics. The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(9), 1–2.
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