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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
- Kious BM (2023). Hard Choices: How Does Injustice Affect the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying? Camb Q Healthc Ethics, 1-12.
- Opel DJ, Kious BM, Cohen IG (2023). AI as a Mental Health Therapist for Adolescents. JAMA Pediatr.
- Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab'. Psychol Med, 53(12), 5879-5881.
- Kious BM, Nelson RH (2023). Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is "Palliative"? AMA J Ethics, 25(9), E655-660.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kious B (2023). Rationality, Irrationality, and Depathologizing OCD. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 30(2), 151-153.
- 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.
- Kious BM (2023). Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate. Theor Med Bioeth.
- 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.
- Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). Epistemic injustice and the psychiatrist. Psychol Med, 1-5.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kious B (2022). Burdening others. Hastings Cent Rep, 52(5), 15-23.
- Kious BM (2022). Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance. Bioethics, 36(6), 621-627.
- Kious BM, Battin MP (2022). Suffering and the completed life. Am J Bioeth, 22(2), 62-64.
- 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.
- Kious BM (2021). Evidence for doubting the evidence? Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 28(2), 129-131.
- Battin MPKious BM (2021). Ending one's life in advance. Hastings Cent Rep, 51(3), 37-47.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kious BM, Bakian AV (2020). Evidence of new-onset depression among persons with migraine after discontinuing antidepressants. Psychiatry Res, 288, 112990.
- Grey JS, Durns T, Kious BM (2020). Pseudologia fantastica: An elaborate tale of combat-related PTSD. J Psychiatr Pract, 26(3), 241-245.
- 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.
- Kious BM, Battin MP (2019). Physician aid-in-dying and suicide prevention in psychiatry: A moral crisis? Am J Bioeth, 19(10), 29-39.
- Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2019). Creatine for the treatment of depression. Biomolecules, 9(9).
- 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.
- Shvartsur A, Kious BM (2019). Delirium and dysarthria after titration of clozapine. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord, 21(3).
- 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.
- Kious BM (2018). Boorse's theory of disease: (Why) Do values matter? J Med Philos, 43(4), 421-438.
- Kious BM, Kondo DG, Renshaw PF (2018). Living high and feeling low: Altitude, suicide, and depression. Harv Rev Psychiatry, 26(2), 43-56.
- Kious BM (2016). Respect for autonomy: deciding what is good for oneself. J Med Ethics, 42(12), 769-775.
- Kious BM (2015). Autonomy, judgment, and theories of the good. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 21-24.
- Kious BM (2015). Autonomy and values: Why the conventional theory of autonomy is not value-neutral. Philos Psychiatr Psychol, 22(1), 1-12.
- Kious B (2011). Response to MacGregor and McNamee: Risks, relativity, and wrongness. Theor Med Bioeth, 32(3), 209-210.
Review
- Kious BM (2023). Medical assistance in dying in neurology. [Review]. Neurol Clin, 41(3), 443-454.
Conference Proceedings
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kious BM, Lewis BR, Kim SYH (2023). What does epistemic injustice add? A response to Grim and Aftab [Letter to the editor]. Psychol Med.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kious BM, Lewis BR (2018). Classifying psychiatric disorders as communicable diseases. [Letter to the editor]. Lancet Psychiatry, 6(1), 13-14.
- Kious B (2009). The philosophy of numbers [Letter to the editor]. Economist, 390(8615).