Study finds no empathy-competence trade-off for physicians [Gold-Foundation.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/12/174:00 AM

Helen Riess, MD is Director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research team at Massachusetts General Hospital conducts translational research utilizing the neuroscience of emotions to enhance patient-clinician communication and personal skills. She is also the co-founder of Empathetics, Inc., which provides innovative empathy and interpersonal skills training for medical professionals. Dr. Riess has become an internationally recognized speaker on empathy supported by her TEDx talk “The Power of Empathy.” Dr. Riess and her research team at Massachusetts General Hospital were supported in the following research study by the Gold Foundation.

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