Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C, is the John B. Francis Co-Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics.

He is also a Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He teaches courses in justice and healthcare, principles of healthcare ethics, narrative ethics, and disability ethics. He is an active educator in the Stritch School of medicine and also serves on the Loyola University Health System (LUHS) ethics committee and is an ethics consultant for LUHS. He became certified in 2019 by the HCEC Certification Commission and holds the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) credential. He is the moderator for Loyola Bioethics Live, a monthly webinar program. In 2018, he was named Graduate Faculty Member of the Year at Loyola University Chicago. He has been quoted in various media outlets, such as Forbes, Insider, and BMJ.

He has published in a variety of areas and has interests in clinical ethics, medical ethics education, professionalism and professional ethics, global health and justice, media and bioethics, the history of medicine and bioethics, and autism and neurodiversity. He is currently an associate editor for the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB). He has also done extensive service for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), having served on the board and as a treasurer. He served as president-elect, president, and immediate past president of ASBH from 2019 to 2025. He has moderated a number of webinars for ASBH and AJOB.

He co-edited with Nanette Elster Transitioning to Adulthood with Autism: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues which was published by Springer in 2022.

He received his BA from Rice University, JD from the University of Houston Law Center, and PhD in medical humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.