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Harold G. Koenig, M.D., M.H.Sc., completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, nursing school at San Joaquin Delta College, medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Centre. He is currently board certified in general psychiatry, and formerly boarded in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and geriatric psychiatry, and is on the faculty at Duke as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in the School of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China. Dr. Koenig is Director of the Centre for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Centre, and has over 500 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and nearly 50 books in print or preparation. Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (1998) and U.S. House of Representatives (2008) concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on public health, and travels widely to give seminars and workshops on this topic. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
Saad Saleh Al Shohaib, M.D., completed his medical training at the Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He completed a Canadian Fellowship in Medicine and a Fellowship in Nephrology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), and completed the American Board of General Medicine and the American Board of Nephrology. He is currently University Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) faculty of medicine and is a consultant nephrologist and Chief of Medical Staff at Bagedo and Erfan Hospital in Jeddah. Dr. Al Shohaib is a member of the Arab Society of Nephrology, Saudi Society of Nephrology, and is founder and ex-president of the Nephrology Club in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. He is the author or co-author of many academic research publications and case reports on kidney disease, dialysis, and transplantation, and is co-author of Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies (2014, Springer).