Dr. Helen Riess is a clinical and research psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has devoted her career to the art and science of research and teaching about healing relationships. Her empathy research has been published in leading medical journals and has won many awards. Dr. Riess’s TEDx talk “The Power of Empathy,” has been viewed by nearly 700,000 viewers.

Dr. Riess is an internationally recognized speaker and participates regularly on podcasts such as Becker’s Healthcare, and KevinMD. Her book, "The Empathy Effect" has been licensed in the US and in ten foreign countries.

Dr. Riess founded and leads Empathetics, an organization that provides evidence based SAAS empathy and communication skills training for healthcare professionals and leaders and programs for Law enforcement and Business Leaders. She publishes regularly and is a founding member of the Newsweek Expert Forum. Dr. Riess and her teams are dedicated to transforming healthcare and organizational systems into compassionate systems.

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