This Compassion in Action webinar was presented by Helen Riess, MD, Director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Riess is also the Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Chairman of Empathetics LLC, which offers scientifically based empathy education.
She has devoted her career to teaching and research on the neuroscience and art of the patient-doctor relationship
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