Kosti Psimopolos

Bio

Constantine 'Kosti' Psimopoulos is a bioethicist affiliated with Harvard, where he has held appointments connected to the Center for Bioethics, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and the Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion / Human Flourishing Program. He earned a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School (inaugural Dean’s Scholarship recipient) and is pursuing a Doctor of Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago’s Neiswanger Institute, specializing in theological bioethics and public health systems ethics. He also directs the Division of Bioethics at the Orthodox Academy of Crete. His interests span health equity, disability bioethics, ethics education, and the ethics of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

The big questions

The kind of questions this session opens up.

1. The industry devoted to keeping us alive is also the one we trust least to put us first. How did care and trust come apart?
2. Is health a right, a product, or a responsibility we share -- and what breaks when we pretend it is only one of those?
3. When every life is priceless but every budget is finite, who gets to do the math, and how should they?
4. What would medicine look like if it were built around the patient as a person rather than the patient as a payer?