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Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University

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.
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