ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL/EMPATHETICS
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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 of 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 800,000 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, a company that provides evidence based empathy and communication skills training and wellness workshops for healthcare professionals, healthcare leaders and frontline staff. 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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Keynote: The Art & Science of Empathy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accountability
Thursday, May 9, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT