Dr. Ted Parran, born and raised in Cleveland Heights, 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 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 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 in northeast Ohio. 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, is a core faculty member in the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at University Hospitals and the Aqddiction Medicine Fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center. 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 - all at CWRU School of Medicine. 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.

A Cleveland area native, Dr. Lydon was a chemistry major at Boston College and then graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in 1986. He was a practicing anesthesiologist for 18 years. He then did his subspecialty training in Addiction Medicine at St. Vincent Charity in 2014 and has been formally with GMA since 2016.

Dr. Lydon currently serves as the medical director of Stella Maris. He is quite active in teaching addiction medicine to undergraduate Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner students from Case Western Reserve Unversity. He also serves as associate faculty of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship formerly of St. Vincent Charity Hospital, now based at Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland. Dr. Lydon's special interests include the biologic basis of addiction, neuro-pharmacology, medical detoxification, and the role of spirituality in sustained recovery from chemical dependency. Dr. Lydon is board certified in Anesthesiology and Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Mykola Kolgganov is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is co-medical director of Rosary Hall Addiction and Recovery Services at St. Vincent Charity Health Center. Dr. Kolganov supervises addiction medicine fellows at the St. Vincent MAT clinic and supervises IOP electives at St. Vincent Charity Health Center. 

Following his Internal Medicine Residency and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Dr. Kolganov continued to pursue his clinical interest in the field of addiction treatment by completing a Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University to advance the effectiveness of substance use treatment in Northeast Ohio. His areas of interest include a comprehensive approach to SUD treatment and quality improvement in medicine.