Chief Medical Officer/Associate Professor Of Psychiatry
Empathetics, Inc./Harvard Medical School
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Helen Riess, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Empathetics, Inc.
Dr. Riess is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Empathy and Relational Science Program at MGB. Her ground-breaking neurobiology of empathy research demonstrated that empathy could be taught and learned.
Dr. Riess is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Empathetics, a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare. Empathetics has provided empathy education for nearly 10,000 clinicians in the US. Dr. Riess is an internationally recognized researcher, author and speaker on the topic of empathy, emotional intelligence and compassion in healthcare. Her research has been published in peer reviewed medical journals.
Dr. Riess’ bestselling book, The Empathy Effect has been licensed in 12 foreign countries and has been translated into Korean, Polish, and Italian, Spanish and an audio book. Her TEDx talk “The power of Empathy TEDX” has been viewed more than 800,000 times. She is a Founding Member of Newsweek’s Expert Forum and Core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO). Dr. Riess and her teams are dedicated to transforming organizational systems into compassionate care systems. Her research has been published in leading medical journals and has won numerous awards. Empathetics is the first and only evidence-based empathy education company in the healthcare industry.
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