Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD, is a Research Fellow at University College Cork, Lead for supervision & implementation for the National DBT Team in Ireland, on the faculty at Harvard Medical School (now part-time), and professor emeritus at the University of Nevada-Reno. Alan is a co-founder of the Center for DBT and Families, the Center for Trauma and Stress Education, and the World DBT Association, a past-president of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) and on the board of directors of the DBT Board of Certification. He has developed dialectical behavior therapy for parents, couples and families and other successful DBT programs for people with suicidality, borderline personality disorder and other problems with emotion regulation, including the free NEA-BPD Family Connections program for family members. His research focuses on the connections between emotion dysregulation and interpersonal or family processes and interventions to help both individuals and relationships. He has authored more than 130 research and clinical papers and book chapters, two books, testified to Congressional committees, and has lectured and trained professionals and the public in more than two dozen countries on BPD, DBT, suicidality, stress and trauma, and DBT family interventions. He received his AB from Brown University and MS and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle.