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Steven E. Calvin, MD
Steven E. Calvin, BS, MD, Chair of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine, is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in the subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He was born in Worthington, Minnesota in 1954 and earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1980 he was awarded an M.D. degree by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After completing a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota and fulfilling a National Health Service Corps scholarship commitment at the El Rio Neighborhood Health Center in Tucson, he carried out a course of studies under a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Calvin is a practicing perinatologist with a full time teaching position in the University of Minnesota's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health. He also teaches a graduate level course in medical ethics in the University of Minnesota's Department of Philosophy in collaboration with John M. Dolan and Jasper Hopkins.
He has spoken at ethics conferences and scientific conferences around the country and, in the Spring of 1996, in response to an invitation from Rep. Henry Hyde, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on advances in perinatal medicine since the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973.
His research interests are in the area of pregnancy toxemia and the ethical analysis of current perinatal practice. He and his wife Cindy have been married for 19 years and have three children.
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