Helen Riess — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Chairman of Empathetics, Inc. since 2011.
Founded Empathetics, Inc. in 2011 to provide virtual empathy training based on the neuroscience of emotions.
Developed empathy training courses tested in randomized controlled trials at Massachusetts General Hospital, demonstrating improved patient ratings of clinician empathy.
Author of "The Empathy Effect."
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 2011.
Holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree and completed a Psychiatry Residency Program.

Biography

Helen Riess, M.D. is the Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Chairman of Empathetics, Inc., an organization she established in 2011. She also serves as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 2011 and is the author of "The Empathy Effect."

Empathetics, Inc. was founded to make empathy training highly accessible through online learning and other products and service solutions. Dr.