Steve Calvin
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Credentials
MD

Adjunct Associate Professor
Biography

Bio

Steve Calvin is a board-certified OB/GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine physician. He has more than 40 years of experience in caring for mothers and babies with the entire range of pregnancy concerns. This includes three years as a National Health Service Corp physician in Tucson AZ. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the UMN Dept of OB/GYN since 1989 and has served as Assistant Residency Director, Co-Director of the original UMN Riverside Service and has won the Faculty teaching award. As founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center he strongly supports pregnancy care for low-risk mothers that is provided by nurse midwives in birth centers and hospitals. He believes that health care reform should start where we all did – with pregnancy and birth and that all mothers deserve comprehensive team-based care for a single package price.

He is currently in year three of an appointed four-year term on the US HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant
and Maternal Mortality (ACIMM)
.

Research Summary

Basic science research on supine hypotension, preeclampsia, the biomechanics of fetal membranes and the isolation of pluripotent stem cells in term cord blood. He is also involved in research on pregnancy care delivery systems and payment mechanisms. Currently he is cultivating relationships with faculty at the UMN School of Veterinary Medicine who are interested in biomechanics studies of the causes of perineal prolapse in pregnant sows.

Teaching Summary

Has been actively involved in all aspects of teaching in the department over three decades. Most recently involved in medical student teaching of pelvic examination skills.

Clinical Summary

The integration of primary midwifery care into healthcare systems, including care provided in accredited birth centers with collaborative relationships with physicians and hospitals.

Education

MD, Washington University in St. Louis, 1980
MFM Fellowship, University of Arizona 1989