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Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Brent Kious, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, practices inpatient adult psychiatry, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illness. He recently became the department's first Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics

Clinical Locations

Huntsman Mental Health Institute (formerly UNI)

801-583-2500

501 Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City, UT  84108
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Specialties

  • Adult Behavioral Health
  • Psychiatry

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Psychiatry - Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine - Adjunct Instructor
Academic Divisions Adult Psychiatry
General Internal Medicine
Board Certification American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)

Brent Kious, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, practices inpatient adult psychiatry, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illness. He recently became the department's first Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics

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Research Statement

Dr. Kious's current research encompasses theoretical work in bioethics and scientific research related to the epidemiology and treatment of depression. His research in bioethics is focused on the role of values in medicine, and in particular, on the role of suffering in the legalization of medical aid-in-dying. He was selected as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in bioethics in 2020. His scientific work focuses on developing novel interventions for the treatment of major depressive disorder. These interventions are inspired by epidemiological research related to the effects of altitude on the risk of major depressive disorder and suicide.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Psychiatry - Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine - Adjunct Instructor
Academic Divisions Adult Psychiatry
General Internal Medicine
Board Certification American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)

Education History

Chief Resident University of Utah
Psychiatry
Chief Resident, 2015
Residency University of Utah
Psychiatry
Resident, 2014
Professional Medical University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Medicine
M.D., 2011
Doctoral Training University of California, Los Angeles
Philosophy
Ph.D., 2009
Undergraduate California Institute of Technology
Biology/Science, Ethics and Society
B.S., 2000

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). Epistemic injustice and the psychiatrist. Psychol Med, 1-5.
  2. Kious B, Schwartz Z, Lewis B (2022). Should we be leery of being Leary? Concerns about psychedelic use by psychedelic researchers. J Psychopharmacol, 37(1), 45-48.
  3. Kious BM, Hesse T, Baese PL (2022). Moral Distress and Involuntary COVID-19 Vaccination of a Mature Minor Receiving Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment. J Clin Ethics, 33(3), 236-239.
  4. Kious B (2022). Burdening Others. Hastings Cent Rep, 52(5), 15-23.
  5. Kious BM (2022). Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance. Bioethics, 36(6), 621-627.
  6. Kious BM, Battin MP (2022). Suffering and the Completed Life. Am J Bioeth, 22(2), 62-64.
  7. Docherty A, Kious B, Brown T, Francis L, Stark L, Keeshin B, Botkin J, DiBlasi E, Gray D, Coon H (2021). Ethical concerns relating to genetic risk scores for suicide. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 186(8), 433-444.
  8. Kious BM (2021). Evidence for doubting the evidence? Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 28(2), 129-131.
  9. Battin MP, Kious BM (2021). Ending One's Life in Advance. Hastings Cent Rep, 51(3), 37-47.
  10. Durns TA, OConnell PH, Shvartsur A, Grey JS, Kious BM (2021). Effects of temporary psychiatric holds on length of stay and readmission risk among persons admitted for psychotic disorders. Int J Law Psychiatry, 76, 101695.
  11. Kious BM, Docherty AR, Botkin JR, Brown TR, Francis LP, Gray DD, Keeshin BR, Stark LA, Witte B, Coon H (2020). Ethical and public health implications of genetic testing for suicide risk: family and survivor perspectives. Genet Med, 23(2), 289-297.
  12. OConnell PH, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Risk of suicide after discharge from inpatient psychiatric care: a systematic review. Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract, 25, 1-11.
  13. Kious BM, Bakian AV (2020). Evidence of new-onset depression among persons with migraine after discontinuing antidepressants. Psychiatry Res, 288, 112990.
  14. Grey JS, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Pseudologia Fantastica: An Elaborate Tale of Combat-related PTSD. J Psychiatr Pract, 26(3), 241-245.
  15. Kious BM, Dobias L, OConnell PH (2019). Effect of Delays in Civil Commitment Hearings on Outcomes Among Psychiatric Inpatients. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 47(4), 467-475.
  16. Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Physician Aid-in-Dying and Suicide Prevention in Psychiatry: A Moral Crisis? Am J Bioeth, 19(10), 29-39.
  17. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2019). Creatine for the Treatment of Depression. Biomolecules, 9(9).
  18. Sabic H, Kious B, Boxer D, Fitzgerald C, Riley C, Scholl L, McGlade E, Yurgelun-Todd D, Renshaw PF, Kondo DG (2019). Effect of Altitude on Veteran Suicide Rates. High Alt Med Biol, 20(2), 171-177.
  19. Shvartsur A, Kious BM (2019). Delirium and Dysarthria After Titration of Clozapine. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord, 21(3).
  20. Kious BM, Bakian A, Zhao J, Mickey B, Guille C, Renshaw P, Sen S (2019). Altitude and risk of depression and anxiety: findings from the intern health study. Int Rev Psychiatry, 31(7-8), 637-645.
  21. Kious BM (2018). Boorse's Theory of Disease: (Why) Do Values Matter? J Med Philos, 43(4), 421-438.
  22. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2018). Living High and Feeling Low: Altitude, Suicide, and Depression. Harv Rev Psychiatry, 26(2), 43-56.
  23. Kious BM (2016). Respect for autonomy: deciding what is good for oneself. J Med Ethics, 42(12), 769-775.
  24. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy, judgment, and theories of the good. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 21-24.
  25. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy and values: Why the conventional theory of autonomy is not value-neutral. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 1-12.
  26. Kious B (2011). Response to MacGregor and McNamee: Risks, relativity, and wrongness. Theor Med Bioeth, 32(3), 209-210.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Velupillai S, Mowery D, Conway M, Hurdle J, Kious B (2016). Vocabulary development to support information extraction of substance abuse from psychiatry notes. In Velupillai S|Mowery D|Conway M|Hurdle J|Kious B (Ed.), BioNLP 2016 - Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, 92-101.

Commentary

  1. Kious BM (2021). Look for injustice and you'll probably find it: a commentary on Harcourt's 'epistemic injustice, children and mental illness'. J Med Ethics, 47(11), 736-737.

Editorial

  1. Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Fuller J, Buetow S, Borgerson K, Lewis BR, Kious BM (2015). Diseases, patients and the epistemology of practice: mapping the borders of health, medicine and care. J Eval Clin Pract, 21(3), 357-64.

Letter

  1. Kious B, Kondo D, Renshaw P (2020). Letter to the Editor RE: Honigman et al., Editorial Comment on: Effect of Altitude on Veteran Suicide Rates by Sabic et al. [Letter to the editor]. High Alt Med Biol, 21(2), 206-208.
  2. Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Physician Aid-in-Dying and Suicide Prevention in Psychiatry". [Letter to the editor]. Am J Bioeth, 19(10), W14-W17.
  3. Kious BM, Lewis BR (2018). Classifying psychiatric disorders as communicable diseases. [Letter to the editor]. Lancet Psychiatry, 6(1), 13-14.
  4. Kious B (2009). The philosophy of numbers [Letter to the editor]. Economist, 390(8615).

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