Expert Speakers

 Somatic Therapist and Chi for Two®, Embodiment Coach with Harbor of Dreams Art in Stone Mountain, Georgia.  

Kristin is passionate about educating and healing the many manifestations of trauma. She worked as the Transplant Mental Health Social Worker for Emory Healthcare from 2020 to 2024. She learned how difficult it can be to maintain long-term sobriety for those experiencing alcohol-associated liver disease from her time at Emory. 

Kristin is a somatic therapist and a Chi for Two®  Embodiment Coach. Chi for Two is a polyvagal-informed multi-generational trauma healing method. She works with clients in Roswell and Stone Mountain, Georgia as well as online. She specializes in treating clients with complex trauma. 

Kristin received her MSW from Florida State University and has been a clinical social worker since 2020. Personally and professionally, she promotes individual and collective healing so humans and communities can reconnect to themselves, each other, and the beautiful planet. JANUARY TALK COMING SOON!

 Social Work | Transplant Institute at  AdventHealth - Porter 

Kat Denton is a passionate social worker with AdventHealth Transplant Institute at Porter Hospital. She specializes in supporting patients living with liver disease due to alcohol. Kat believes that patients are more than their diagnosis and should be treated with dignity and respect. She strives to support patients in their journey of recovery by meeting them where they are and guiding them at each step. 

Kat earned her MSW from the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She is dually licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Addiction Counselor. Kat received her Certified Clinical Transplant Social Worker through the Society of Transplant Social Workers. 

Transplant Hepatologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.   

Dr. Shroff completed his medical training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and then at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Upon joining faculty at UNC, Dr. Shroff has taken a special interest in alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) and established a new multi-disciplinary clinic called the Integrated Healthcare for Alcohol Use and Liver Disease (IHEAL) Clinic. The IHEAL Clinic pairs hepatologists with substance use counselors and addiction medicine physicians to deliver comprehensive care for patients with ALD. Dr. Shroff is also active in professional societies including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST), where he actively collaborates with others around the United States on clinical research in ALD.

 Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Dr. Weinrieb came to Philadelphia in 1991 after completing his residency in adult psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital of NY Medical College in Greenwich Village, NY. He then completed a Department of Veteran’s Affairs Fellowship in Addiction Medicine from the Penn/VA Center for the Study of Addictions in 1993. His responsibilities included having served as Medical Director of the Treatment Research Center for 7 years. He has served on the Penn Institutional Review Board for Human Studies, the Penn Medical School Student Standards Committee and the Standing Conflict of Interest Committee of the University of Pennsylvania.  From his work as the consultant psychiatrist for the liver transplant team of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which he implemented in 1995, Dr. Weinrieb became an NIH and VAMC grant funded investigator focusing his interests on the treatment of psychiatric and addictive disorders in solid organ transplant patients. His primary clinical and research interests focus on liver transplantation for people with Alcohol Use Disorders. Dr. Weinrieb has been the recipient of a number of research and teaching awards, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. He was the Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Emergency Evaluation Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 2006-2016 and is currently Chief Psychiatric Consultant for the Penn Transplant Institute and Program Director of an ACGME accredited Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/Penn VAMC, Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Weinrieb founded and directs the only outpatient psychiatric clinic for transplant patients that treats their patients longitudinally. He thoroughly enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduates, medical students, dental students, advanced practice nursing students, psychiatry and neurology residents.