Helen Riess, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Founder and Chief Scientist, Empathetics, Inc.
Dr. Helen Riess is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Riess founded and leads Empathetics.com a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare, law enforcement and business in the US and internationally. Dr. Riess is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic of empathy and emotional intelligence. Her TEDx talk “The power of Empathy TEDX” has been viewed nearly 700,000 times. Her new book, The Empathy Effect, has been licensed in 10 foreign countries and has been translated into Korean, Polish, Italian and Spanish, and an audio book. 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. Additionally, Empathetics’ work with law enforcement has received recognition in multiple media outlets From Metrowest Daily News: Wellesley, Sudbury police participate in empathy training to help de-escalate situations From the Massachusetts Municipal Association Lunenburg, Sudbury and Wellesley police take part in empathy training program, and from Police Chief Magazine: Spotlight: Empathy as a Starting Point for Police Reform.
