Ahmed Calvo, MD, MPH

As Director and Chief Medical Officer for the HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives since 2004, Dr. Calvo has led this now decade-long national evidence-based systems effort for improving quality in the delivery of primary health care delivered at federally funded health centers, in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Primary Care Associations in all States and Territories, State Health Departments and Federal Partner Agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the NIH, CDC, AHRQ, SAMHSA, AoA, and DHHS Offices such as OPHS, OMH and OWH.

Prior to his appointment to the Center for Quality in 2006, Dr. Calvo was Chief of the Clinical Quality Improvement Branch, Division of Clinical Quality, Bureau of Primary Health Care, at HRSA. Up to June 2004, Dr. Calvo was Chief Medical Officer of the San Ysidro Health Center, a large federally qualified health center network of community clinics on the US/Mexico Border; Director of Medical Education and Medical Director at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Chula Vista, in the County of San Diego, California; and on the clinical faculty in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine. He was AHEC Center Director at Scripps Hospital, and HETC Program Director at the UCSD School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Hispanic Center of Excellence. A graduate from Stanford University and the UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Calvo has completed several UCSD/SDSU Faculty Development Fellowships on care of underserved communities, an MPH on Public Health Management, and the National Hispanic Medical Association National Leadership Fellowship at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.

In addition to his 26 year clinical experience in solo and group practice, Dr. Calvo has functioned as CEO and Chairman of the Board of a large private medical group and an Independent Physicians Association (IPA); as Executive Vice-President for a consulting firm specializing in integration within the healthcare industry; on the clinical faculty at UCSD, UCSF, and Stanford Medical Schools; as President of both the Alameda - Contra Costa Academy of Family Physicians and San Diego Academy of Family Physicians; as President of the Latino Health Partnership in San Diego County; as well as being principal of a health-policy consulting firm for 30 years with particular interest in international health, border health, telecommunications and emergency preparedness. In 1998 Dr. Calvo was Program Chair for the International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC) meeting in San Diego, now known as the Global Health Medical Education Consortium (GHEC). He has worked with the CDC Bi-national Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) Program on the U.S. - Mexico Border and was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the California Office of Bi-national Border Health by Dr. Diane Bonta, then Director of Health in the State of California. In 2002, Dr. Calvo was winner of the first Public Health Champion Award in San Diego County South Bay presented by the Department of Health and Human Services of San Diego County and winner of a Vice-Chancellor's Community Champion Award at the UCSD School of Medicine. Dr. Calvo is a Past-Board Member of the San Diego - Hawaii Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Past-Board Member of the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, based in Washington DC. He was 2007 President of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hispanic Employees Organization.