Helen Riess
Harvard Medical School, USA
Biography
Helen Riess, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She directs the Empathy and Relational Science Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research team conducts translational research utilizing the neuroscience of emotions. The effectiveness of Dr. Riess’s empathy education approach has been demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial. Dr. Riess has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is an internationally recognized speaker and researcher. Her Empathy TEDx talk has been viewed by over 100,000 viewers. Her empathy training curricula are implemented internationally in healthcare. She is Chief Scientific Officer of Empathetics, Inc, providing web-based empathy training solutions.