Luis Gaviria
Luis Gaviria - (born February 23, 1955 in Urrao, Colombia) is a clinical psychophysiologyst, and neurophysiologyst, (stress medicine), an author and a speaker. Formerly the director of the Biocomp Research Institute,[1] at Los Angeles, he became the head of Stress Medicine at Las Americas Hospital Intensive Care Unit, and a professor at Universidad de Antioquia School of Medicine. He is now president of Gaventerprise Group, a leading consulting firm, and is also the Provost at the Neuroscience & Coaching Institute, in the United States. He is a Member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching, IAC, and member of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard University Professional Association.
Luis Gaviria is a pioneer of Neurocoaching, (with Dr. Srini Pillay - Dr. David Rock). He is a student of Dr. Hershel Toomim, a pioneer of biofeedback, and main proponent of Hemoencephalography, a discipline of Neurofeedback. His work and philosophy have been influenced by Francis Collins (geneticist), Bernie Siegel and Albert Schweitzer. Luis Gaviria has worked with thousands of people around the world, in the fields of Stress Management and Personal Development. A full WLRN-TV series of TV shows, "Universo Interior", was dedicated to him and his work in South Florida.
He is the author of "Using stress for success" (originally "Aprovechando el estres para triunfar", published by Amazon), he is also the coauthor of "Cardiovascular Risk Factors: myths and realities" ("https://web.archive.org/web/20110727043536/http://www.luisgaviria.org/download/Factores-de-riesgo-cardiovascular-1.pdf" / currently on its second edition), and he has published a number of audiobooks (Spanish) like "The Power of Forgiveness", "A Very Special Personal Encounter", "On Cultivating Serenity", "The Value of Strokes", "NeuroCoaching and Meaning", plus a series of courses and lectures geared towards empowering the individual through the proper use of Coaching and Andragogy.
Gaviria, Luis (2008). Aprovechando el estres para triunfar. Amazon.
Gaviria, Luis (2018). "Vice President". International Association of Coaching. IAC. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
Gaviria, Luis (2014). "IAC Vice President". Institute of Coaching at Harvard U. IAC. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
Gaviria, Luis (2015). "Emotions and the body". Drew Pearson Live. Texas 47. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
Gaviria, Luis (2008). "Dr. Luis Gaviria Provost". Neuroscience & Coaching Institute. NCI Texas. Retrieved 21 May 2018.