Background
Calkins, Evan was born on July 15, 1920 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Grosvenor and Patty (Phillips) Calkins.
Calkins, Evan was born on July 15, 1920 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Grosvenor and Patty (Phillips) Calkins.
Graduate, Milton Academy, 1939. AB, Harvard University, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945.
Intern, assistant resident medicine, Johns Hopkins, 1946-1947, 48-50;
chief resident physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1951-1952;
member arthritis unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1952-1961;
National Research Council fellow medical science, Harvard, 1950-1951;
instructor, assistant professor medicine, Harvard, 1952-1961;
practice medicine, specializing in rheumatology, Boston, 1951-1961;
practice medicine, specializing in rheumatology, Buffalo, since 1961;
professor medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1961-1994;
professor emeritus, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1994;
department chairman, State University of New York, 1965-1977;
head department medicine, Buffalo General Hospital, 1961-1968;
director medicine, E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, 1968-1978;
head gerontology section, Buffalo VA Medical Center, 1978-1990;
head division geriatrics/gerontology, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1978-1990. Founder, president Network in Aging of Western New York, Inc., 1980-1983. Cons.Nat. Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases Training Grants Committee, 1958-1962, Program Project Committee, 1964-1968, National Institution Special Study Section for Health Manpower, 1969-1977, for Behavioral Medicine, 1978-1979.
Member academic awards committee National Institute on Aging, 1979-1980, member of national advisory county, 1985-1988. Director Western New York Geriatric Education Center, 1983-1988, co-director, 1988-1990;director Multidisciplinary Center on Aging State University of New York-Buffalo, 1989-1990, professor family medicine, 1987-1994. Senior physician and coordinator geriatric programs Health Care Plan, 1990-1997.
Partner Promedicus Health Group, since 1998, Chairman.med. education committee. Chairman steering committee WNT/Rochester Osteopsrosis Ednl.Resource Center, 1999.
President National Association Geriatric Education Centers, 1992-1993. Captain Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1943-1945, 46-48. Fellow American College of Physicians (master 1989, Laureate award New York Upstate chapter 1998), American College Rheumatology (founder, president 1967-1968, master 1986), Gerontological Society of America (chair clinical medical section 1989, Freeman award 1991), American Geriatrics Society (Milo D. Leavitt award 1986).
Member American Clinical and Climatological Association (vice president 1987), American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, Society Medicine Argentina (honorary), Argentine Society Gerontology and Geriatrics (honorary), Society Fellows John Hopkins University, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Virginia McC. Brady, September 9, 1946. Children: Sarah Calkins Oxnard, Stephen, Lucy McCormick, Joan, Benjamin, Hugh, Ellen Rountree, Geoffrey, Timothy.