Helen Riess, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.   Dr. Riess has devoted her career to teaching and research in the neuroscience and art of the patient-doctor relationship to medical students, residents, and faculty. Her research team conducts translational research utilizing the neuroscience of emotions.  The effectiveness of Dr. Riess’s empathy training approach has been demonstrated in pilot studies and a randomized, controlled trial.  Dr. Riess is on the Scientific Advisory Panel of the National Academy of Medicine, a core member of the Research Consortium for Emotional Intelligence and has served on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Harvard Institute of Coaching.  Dr. Riess is an internationally recognized speaker, researcher, and clinician. Her work has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and other leading medical journals. She is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Empathetics, Inc., a company that provides web-based and blended learning empathy training