Dr. Elizabeth Calvin, MD
Education
B.S., Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX
M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Adult Psychiatry Residency and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Qualification/Experience
Dr. Calvin serves as a consultant and assists with quality management of the Timothy Center Intensive Care Program. 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 works directly with patients in her private practice, Whole Life Psychiatry, in Cedar Park, part time at Bluebonnet Trails in Round Rock, and also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine where she helps to teach third and fourth year medical students psychiatry
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 hospitalized 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 obstetrics 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
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
Email: medical@timothycenter.com