Dr. Helen Riess Biography

Dr. Helen Riess is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the MGH Department of Psychiatry's Empathy Research and Training in Psychotherapy Research group. She's working on a study to see how to improve empathy in the patient-physician interaction. Wesleyan University awarded her a bachelor's degree, and Boston University School of Medicine awarded her a master's degree. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Riess completed her psychiatric residency, Chief Residency, and a research fellowship. Dr. Riess' therapeutic interests include adult anxiety disorders, depression, adult adjustment disorders, adult attention deficit disorders, and bereavement counseling, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Riess has dedicated his career to medical education. From her book on the treatment of bulimia nervosa to published curricula on psychotherapy supervision to her most current neurobiologically based empathy training curriculum for physicians, she has produced unique educational and therapeutic curricula to address a variety of issues. Dr. Riess completed a Rabkin Medical Education Fellowship and the Harvard Macy Institute for Educators in the Health Professions at Harvard Medical School. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation for Medical Education, and The Risk Management Foundation all sponsor Dr. Riess' research.

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