Constantine 'Kosti' Psimopoulos

Constantine “Kosti” Psimopoulos, DBE, is Senior Program Coordinator with Harvard’s Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion and the Human Flourishing Program. He also holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, including in the Department of Systems Biology at HMS through the Scientific Citizenship Initiative, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and the Center for Bioethics at HMS.

He specializes in bioethics, with research and teaching interests spanning theological bioethics, disability bioethics, public health and systems ethics, health equity, and the ethics of artificial intelligence. His work focuses particularly on ethics education, responsible conduct in science, adaptive sport medicine and rehabilitation ethics, and the intersection of AI and bioethics.

Kosti’s research and academic agenda centers on theological bioethics, disability ethics, and ethics in scientific and medical research, and explores their implications for medicine, healthcare systems, and scientific training. He has also contributed to ethics curriculum development and simulation-based pedagogy for genetics researchers and future scientists at Harvard Medical School.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching, ethics curriculum development, and public engagement, Kosti is also involved in initiatives advancing inclusion, disability advocacy, and ethical reflection in medicine and science. He currently serves as Director of the Division of Bioethics, Research Institute, Orthodox Academy of Crete, under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, where he inaugurated a dialogue series on AI, Bioethics, and Orthodoxy.

He received graduate training in bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, earning an MBE degree as recipient of the inaugural HMS Dean’s Scholarship. He has also matriculated in a Doctor of Bioethics degree at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership, specializing in Moral Theology (Theological Bioethics) and Public Health and Systems Ethics.

External links: Personal Website