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This is an online event.FREE CEU's - Addressing SUD Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
1.5 CEU's Applied for through The Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board | Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board | National Association of Social Workers
The pandemic has been a challenging ordeal for many people, especially for those who suffer from addiction. This course is intended to evaluate how Covid-19 has affected the Substance Use Disorder population, the challenges it has created, and the treatment options and methods that have become essential to continue helping the individuals we serve.
About the presenter:
Dr. Ted Parran is a 1978 graduate with honors in History from Kenyon College and a 1982 graduate from 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. In 1987, he received the Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award from the Department of Medicine. In 1988 he returned to Cleveland and CWRU School of Medicine.
Dr. Parran pursues several areas of special interest in medical education including Doctor
— Patient Communication, Faculty Development, Continuing Medical Education, and Addiction Medicine.
In addition, Dr. Parran is certified by the American Society on Addiction Medicine and his group practice provides medical directorship services to several Substance Abuse treatment programs in northeast Ohio. He is widely published and has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences for the past two and a half decades.
He established the Addiction Fellowship Program at CWRU School of Medicine in 1994, teaches on the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship faculty and co-directs the current Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program at St. Vincent charity Hospital. Dr. Parran is the co-director of the Foundations of Clinical Medicine Course, a course with topics which touch on the doctor patient relationship, health disparities, professionalism, cultural competence and health policy. He is the medical director of the Program in Continuing Medical Education, and in 2007 was named as the Isabel and Carter Wang Professor and Chair in Medical Education, all at CWRU School of Medicine.