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Theodore V. Parran, M.D.
Dr. Ted Parran, born and raised in Cleveland Heights, is a 1978 graduate with honors in history from Kenyon College and a 1982 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Baltimore City Hospital of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following his residency, Dr. Parran was selected to be the medical chief resident and in 1987 he received the Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award from the Department of Medicine. In 1988, he returned to Cleveland and the faculty of the CWRU School of Medicine.
Dr. Parran pursues several areas of special interest in medical education, including: doctor–patient communication and the development of professionalism, faculty development, continuing medical education and addiction medicine.
In addition, Dr. Parran is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine, and his group practice provides medical directorship services to several substance abuse treatment programs throughout Northeast Ohio. Notably, Dr.Parran has been the co-medical Director for Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center since 1988. He is widely published and has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences for the past three decades.
He established the Addiction Fellowship Program at CWRU School of Medicine in 1994, and is a core faculty member in the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at University Hospitals and the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center.
At the CWRU School of Medicine, Dr. Parran has served as the co-director of the Tuesday Seminars Program since 1994, the Communications Skills Curriculum co-director since 1992 and the medical director of the Program in Continuing Medical Education since 1994. In 2023, he was appointed as the co-director of the School of Medicine’s new Addictions Pathway. In 2007, he was named as the inaugural Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and Chair in Medical Education, and in 2018 received the School of Medicine’s outstanding pre-clinical faculty teaching award.
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Addiction PsychiatryAddiction MedicineWatch Video
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Rajalla E. Prewitt , M.D.
Rajalla E. Prewitt, M.D. is the clinical medical director of St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services. She joined St. Vincent Charity’s Behavioral Health medical staff in 2021 and currently provides outpatient behavioral health services. She is dual board certified in adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry.
Previously, Dr. Prewitt served as medical director of the adolescent inpatient unit and as an attending psychiatrist for the adult partial hospitalization program at Snowden at Fredericksburg of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and as an outpatient adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist for Gaertner Psychiatric PC, which is a full-service inpatient and outpatient psychiatric medical practice serving Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virgina. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Prewitt served as a psychiatrist at the Center for Family Guidance in Marlton, New Jersey.
Dr. Prewitt holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from John Carroll University and a medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and fellowship in child/adolescent psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she was chief resident of child/adolescent psychiatry.
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Mary K. Wills, LISW-S
Mary K Wills, LISW-S is an outpatient therapist and clinical supervisor. As a behavioral health therapist at St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center, Mary is dedicated to improving access to integrated care so that patients can address both their behavioral health symptoms as well as underlying health concerns. Her experience includes working with a broad range of populations, including adults, children, families, couples, geriatrics, LGBTQIA+, dual diagnosis, developmentally delayed, Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries, grant-funded services, private insurance, and corrections. She has experience in diverse social work settings, such as inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community-based services, schools, in-home community mental health counseling, corrections, and office-based and hospital-based integrated care.
Mary is specifically skilled in treating trauma, anxiety and grief/loss. She has developed multiple grief and loss programs based on the Kubler-Ross model and approaches treatment with empathy and understanding. Mary is trained in treatment modalities, including EMDR, TF-CBT, motivational interviewing and DBT.
Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mount Union, a Master of Science in Social Administration and a certificate in Global Health from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). While at CWRU, Mary studied abroad in Northern India to learn more about the effects of poverty on global health. She completed her undergraduate internships at a subsidized housing program in Stark County and Stark County Family Court with the juvenile pre-trial division. Her graduate school internships were completed at an inpatient behavioral health center in Willoughby, Ohio, and at Marion Sterling Elementary School in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood. Many of the murals painted in Marion Sterling were painted by Mary and her students.
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Tamika M. White, LSW
Tamika M. White, LSW, MSW, provides services in our community as an outpatient behavioral health therapist. She has worked in various mental health settings for non-profit hospitals and organizations. A major focus in her work has been in dual-diagnosis’s services, such as intensive outpatient treatment program (IOP); intensive inpatient residential treatment; and outpatient behavioral health services.
Tamika has a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Cleveland State University, and was trained in evidence-based practices. She is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) by the state of Ohio. She has served for over 13 years on the board of Founder’s Path Inc., a non-profit that promotes assisting individuals struggling with addiction in building a spiritual, physical and mental foundation for the future.
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Ricky Williams, LSW
Ricky Williams is a licensed social worker with a special interest in the 12-step recovery program and substance use disorder (SUD). He is the lead peer specialist, and a member of the HCV Liver Treatment team.
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Substance use disorders
