Dr. Calvin earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology (with a focus in Neuroscience) from the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with Highest Honors. She then attended Baylor College of Medicine (in the Top 10 Medical Schools according to US News and World Report) and earned her Doctor of Medicine Degree. She completed Adult Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at The University of Colorado where she was elected to serve as Chief of Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Colorado Hospital. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Calvin also serves as Affiliate Faculty at Dell Medical School and Clinical Assistant Professor, Affiliated at Texas A&M College of Medicine where she helps to teach third and fourth year medical students and child and adolescent fellows psychiatry and psychotherapy.
STATMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
"I believe in individually tailored treatment. I want to understand who you are, your family and social situation, and your goals. I see myself as a consultant and will actively involve you in treatment decisions. Overall, I am a conservative medication prescriber, and I believe that while medication can be helpful and sometimes necessary, changing other things, like activities, lifestyle, connectedness and support, can also be instrumental. I generally utilize a methodical, step-by-step approach to attempt to improve quality of life."
HONORS / AWARDS
Outstanding Service as a Preceptor, University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, 2015 Marianne Wamboldt Award for Excellence in a Grand Round Presentation, University of Colorado, 2013 / 2014 Best Poster Award, Resident, University of Colorado, 2011 / 2012 Outstanding Service in Medical Student Teaching, University of Colorado, 2010 Nominated Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Baylor College of Medicine, 2008 Gold Humanism Honor Society, Baylor College of Medicine, 2008 Dean's Honored Graduate, University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Phi Betta Kappa National Honor Society, University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Top Student, Neurobiology Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, 2003 Distinguished Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, 2002 Dean Scholar's Program, 2001 Emerging Scholar's Program, 2000
RANGE OF TREATMENT EXPERIENCE
Dr. Calvin has treated children and adolescents inpatient, outpatient, and in the psychiatric emergency room and has had further subspecialty experience treating medically hosptialized children with co-morbid psychiatric conditions. She also has had experience treating adult psychiatry patients in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings and has worked with an obsetrics group to help women struggling with psychiatric complications associated with pregnancy.
PUBLICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL TALKS
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Calvin E, Hutchison A, Ross RG. Infant and preschool adaptations of inhibitory adult tasks associated with psychiatric illness. Colorado Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology. Vol 2 (1):58-74. January 2017.
Calvin E, Hunter SK, Ross RG. Preschoolers of mothers with affective and anxiety disorders show impairments in cognitive inhibition during a chimeric animal stroop. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal. Vol 1 (1): 1-15. June 2013.
Hutchison A, Hunter SK, Wagner B, Calvin E, Zerbe GO, Ross RG. Diminished Infant P50 Sensory Gating Predicts Increased 40-Month-Old Attention, Anxiety/Depression and Externalizing Symptoms. Journal of Attention Disorders. June 2013.
Mercer E, Deshpande A, Hafemeister A, From Wrinkles to Bioterrorism: The Big Role of Little Synaptobrevin in Neurotransmission, University of Texas Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol 3 (1), 17-26, Spring 2004.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS Calvin E, Hunter S, Ross R. Moving Forward: A Review of Adult Inhibitory Physiologic Tasks Used in Psychosis, Preschool and Infant Correlates, and a Call for Infant and Preschool Research, Junior Faculty Poster Session, University of Colorado, March 20, 2013.
Calvin E, Hunter S, Ross R. Cognitive Inhibitory Deficits in At-Risk Four-Year Olds, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, April 5, 2011. Also presented at the Junior Faculty Poster Session, University of Colorado, March 16, 2011 and March 14, 2012.
GRAND ROUNDS PRESENTATIONS RDoC: Looking to Treat Psychiatry's Dilemmas, University of Colorado, 2014
Patients and Providers: Bearing the Wait of Chronic Pain, University of Colorado, 2013
Cognitive Inhibitory Deficits in At-Risk Four-Year Olds - Winners of the Junior Faculty Poster Sessions, University of Colorado, 2011
PROFESSIONAL LECTURES Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: One Step Beyond the Basics, 9 lecture series, First and Second Year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows, Dell Children's Hospital, 2021-present Psychiatry: Collaboration, Medication, and Alternative Treatments, Net Connection Therapists, 2017
Everyday Pearls from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Texas Education Association Nurses, Dell Children's Hospital, 2015 Protection and Resilience: The Art of Bouncing Back, University of Colorado, 2012