Social Workers & Counselors: Introductory Curriculum on Alcohol Use Disorder

Alyssa Peterkin, MD is an Instructor of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine and an internist at Boston Medical Center. Currently, she also serves as an associate program director for Grayken Addiction Medicine fellowship. She spends her clinical time working as a hospitalist, attending on the inpatient addiction consultation service and working in the substance use disorder urgent care. Her interests include educating learners at all levels and expanding access to addiction treatment.

Carla Marienfeld, MD, is an addiction psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She edited two books: Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice and Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Review: An Essential Board Exam Study Guide. She has been highly involved in the education of colleagues and trainees, and she is the fellowship director for the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Marienfeld completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry and residency training in psychiatry at Yale University. Her medical degree with honors is from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Marienfeld is a consultant for and has stock in CARI Health.

Dr. McLeish specializes in addiction medicine. Her main clinical interests are cocaine, opioid, and tobacco use disorders, community outreach, education, and wellness. Dr. McLeish received her MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. She did an internal medicine residency at Englewood Hospital and an addiction medicine fellowship at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. Dr. McLeish is a member of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She joined Englewood Health Physician Network in 2024.

Dr. Borelli is a core faculty member in addiction medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She trained in emergency medicine at UT Health San Antonio and completed an addiction medicine fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, New York. Her clinical work is on the inpatient Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service in New Haven, Connecticut. In this role, she works on an interdisciplinary team and precepts trainees who span the spectrum of medical training, including first-year medical students, medical students, and resident physicians on the Yale Collaborative Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine Program (CHAMP) pathway, consult-liaison psychiatry fellows, palliative care fellows, and addiction medicine fellows.

Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM, FAPA, is an addiction physician and the Medical Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Division of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control. Brian is a Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor of Addiction Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, and the 2023-2025 President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Dr. Hurley is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and regularly conducts motivational interviewing training throughout the United States.

Trina Fullard serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Charlotte Rescue Mission, overseeing clinical programming for various programs. She is a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist and Certified Clinical Supervisor in North Carolina. With extensive experience in adolescent care and substance use disorder treatment, she has worked at the Marriott Foundation, Greenbriar Treatment Center, and McLeod Addictive Disease Center. Trina graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Maryland, College Park. She actively participates in community engagement through numerous councils and committees, including the ASAM Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine Planning Committee.

Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Danovitch’s clinical practice and research focuses on substance use disorders, as well as the integration of medical and mental health services. His studies are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Danovitch is the author of over 90 articles and book chapters and co-editor of two books on substance use disorders. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine, and a recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching.

• Founder of Austin Area Opioid Workgroup
• Subject matter expert for the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence
• Recovery Support Peer Specialist and Supervisor at Communities for Recovery playing a pivotal role in developing and implementing programs to support individuals on their recovery journey.
• Peer Recovery Support Specialist trainer since 2018, playing a crucial role as writer for the Texas Recovery Support Peer Specialist 2024 curriculum
• Areas of expertise include strategies to reduce the risk of harm, peer supervision, and workforce development.

Patsy Dolan Bouressa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Supervisor with over 20 years of experience as a counselor, including over 9 years’s experience working specifically with individuals in the music industry and their partners and other gig workers. Throughout her career, she’s worked extensively with clients facing the unique challenges of career transitions, depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, and trauma.