Keynote Speakers
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Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH, is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Deusto Stress and Resilience Research Team at the University of Deusto (Bilbao and San Sebastian, Spain) and is Professor of the Master of Science in Family Therapy Program and the PhD in Counseling Psychology, College of Education & Human Development, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Bacigalupe is President-Elect (2012-2013) of the American Family Therapy Academy and fellow of the American Psychological Association. His research with colleagues in Spain, Mexico, and USA, focuses on the impact of emerging media on families, transnational /immigrant families, family health, and e-health. He is senior researcher in the Deusto Stress and Resilience Research Team leading qualitative research and mixed methods research in a longitudinal study of Basque adolescents. Overall, his research focuses on vulnerable populations such as immigrants, the chronically ill, and those at risk of being negatively affected by health inequity.
Stan Tatkin
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT). Dr. Tatkin teaches and supervises first through third-year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, California, and is assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. He received his early training in developmental object relations (Masterson Institute), Gestalt, psychodrama, and family systems theory. His private practice specialized in treating adolescents and adults with personality disorders, and recently has specialized in psycho-neurobiological theories of human relationship. Dr. Tatkin was formerly clinical director of Charter Hospital’s intensive outpatient drug and alcohol program, and is a former president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura County chapter. He authored: Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship, (New Harbinger); and Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy, with coauthor Marion Solomon (W. W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series
