Brent M. Kious

Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: Spanish, English

Clinical Locations

Huntsman Mental Health Institute (formerly UNI)

801-583-2500

  • Brent Kious, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, practices inpatient adult psychiatry, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illness. His research focuses on ethical issues in psychiatry, new treatments for major depressive disorder, and suicide prevention programs.

    Specialties

    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. His research focuses on ethical issues in psychiatry, new treatments for major depressive disorder, and suicide prevention programs.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Psychiatry -Primary
    Internal Medicine -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions
    Adult Psychiatry
    Board Certification
    American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)

    Education history

    Chief Resident Psychiatry - University of Utah Chief Resident
    Psychiatry - University of Utah Resident
    Doctoral Training Philosophy - University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D.
    Medicine - University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine M.D.
    Undergraduate Biology/Science, Ethics and Society - California Institute of Technology B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Kious BM (2023). Hard Choices: How Does Injustice Affect the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying? Camb Q Healthc Ethics, 1-12.
    2. Opel DJ, Kious BM, Cohen IG (2023). AI as a Mental Health Therapist for Adolescents. JAMA Pediatr.
    3. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab'. Psychol Med, 53(12), 5879-5881.
    4. Kious BM, Nelson RH (2023). Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is "Palliative"? AMA J Ethics, 25(9), E655-660.
    5. Dorfman NJ, Blumenthal-Barby J, Ubel PA, Moore B, Nelson R, Kious BM (2023). What do psychiatrists think about caring for patients who have extremely treatment-refractory illness? AJOB Neurosci, 1-8.
    6. Kious BM, Pabst Peggy Battin M (2023). A focus group study of the views of persons with a history of psychiatric illness about psychiatric medical aid in dying. AJOB Empir Bioeth, 1-10.
    7. Kious B (2023). Rationality, Irrationality, and Depathologizing OCD. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 30(2), 151-153.
    8. Broadbent M, Medina Grespan M, Axford K, Zhang X, Srikumar V, Kious BM, Imel Z (2023). A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters. Front Psychiatry, 14, 1110527.
    9. Kious BM (2023). Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate. Theor Med Bioeth.
    10. Karnaze MM, Kious BM, Feuerman LZ, Classen S, Robinson JO, Bloss CS, McGuire AL (2023). Public mental health during and after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Opportunities for intervention via emotional self-efficacy and resilience. Front Psychol, 14, 1016337.
    11. Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). Epistemic injustice and the psychiatrist. Psychol Med, 1-5.
    12. Dorfman NJ, Blumenthal-Barby J, Ubel PA, Moore B, Nelson R, Kious BM (2023). What Do Psychiatrists Think About Caring for Patients Who Have Extremely Treatment-Refractory Illness? AJOB Neurosci.
    13. Kious BM, Pabst Peggy Battin M (2023). A Focus Group Study of the Views of Persons with a History of Psychiatric Illness about Psychiatric Medical Aid in Dying. AJOB Empir Bioeth.
    14. Broadbent M, Medina Grespan M, Axford K, Zhang X, Srikumar V, Kious B, Imel Z (2023). A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters. Front Psychiatry, 14.
    15. 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.
    16. 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.
    17. Kious B (2022). Burdening others. Hastings Cent Rep, 52(5), 15-23.
    18. Kious BM (2022). Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance. Bioethics, 36(6), 621-627.
    19. Kious BM, Battin MP (2022). Suffering and the completed life. Am J Bioeth, 22(2), 62-64.
    20. 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.
    21. Kious BM (2021). Evidence for doubting the evidence? Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 28(2), 129-131.
    22. Battin MPKious BM (2021). Ending one's life in advance. Hastings Cent Rep, 51(3), 37-47.
    23. 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.
    24. 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.
    25. 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.
    26. Kious BM, Bakian AV (2020). Evidence of new-onset depression among persons with migraine after discontinuing antidepressants. Psychiatry Res, 288, 112990.
    27. Grey JS, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Pseudologia fantastica: An elaborate tale of combat-related PTSD. J Psychiatr Pract, 26(3), 241-245.
    28. 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.
    29. Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Physician aid-in-dying and suicide prevention in psychiatry: A moral crisis? Am J Bioeth, 19(10), 29-39.
    30. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2019). Creatine for the treatment of depression. Biomolecules, 9(9).
    31. 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.
    32. Shvartsur A, Kious BM (2019). Delirium and dysarthria after titration of clozapine. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord, 21(3).
    33. 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.
    34. Kious BM (2018). Boorse's theory of disease: (Why) Do values matter? J Med Philos, 43(4), 421-438.
    35. Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2018). Living high and feeling low: Altitude, suicide, and depression. Harv Rev Psychiatry, 26(2), 43-56.
    36. Kious BM (2016). Respect for autonomy: deciding what is good for oneself. J Med Ethics, 42(12), 769-775.
    37. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy, judgment, and theories of the good. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 21-24.
    38. Kious BM (2015). Autonomy and values: Why the conventional theory of autonomy is not value-neutral. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 1-12.
    39. Kious B (2011). Response to MacGregor and McNamee: Risks, relativity, and wrongness. Theor Med Bioeth, 32(3), 209-210.

    Review

    1. Kious BM (2023). Medical assistance in dying in neurology. [Review]. Neurol Clin, 41(3), 443-454.

    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 BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab [Letter to the editor]. Psychol Med.
    2. Kious B, Kondo D, Renshaw P (2020). Comment on: Effect of altitude on veteran suicide rates [Letter to the editor]. High Alt Med Biol, 21(2), 206-208.
    3. 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.
    4. Kious BM, Lewis BR (2018). Classifying psychiatric disorders as communicable diseases. [Letter to the editor]. Lancet Psychiatry, 6(1), 13-14.
    5. Kious B (2009). The philosophy of numbers [Letter to the editor]. Economist, 390(8615).