James Frances Calvert, Jr., M.D., a family physician from Klamath Falls, was
named the 2008 Oregon Medical Association’s (OMA) Doctor Citizen of the Year at the
Association’s 134th annual meeting in Salem. The annual award honors a physician who has made
outstanding contributions to his/her community.

Dr. Calvert is a faculty member at Cascades East Family Practice Residency Program in Klamath
Falls and was nominated by his peers for his numerous medical and non-medical contributions to the
common good, locally and internationally.

Dr. Calvert has positively impacted the global community through his current role as Klamath
County Rotary president and as past Chair of the Rotary’s World Services Committee. His work with
this group includes financially supporting and assisting a group that traveled to Uganda, Tanzania,
Kenya and Vietnam to distribute and fit artificial hands for amputees. He also led several trips to
Kyrgyzstan and coordinated fund raising efforts to build both a cannery and a small clothing factory
to help the economy of Baku and surrounding communities. As part of this effort in Baku, he also
obtained equipment for a Cancer Treatment Hospital and readers for a school for the blind.
Locally, Dr. Calvert has been instrumental in assuring the success of Klamath Reads, a program that
places a book in the hands of every first grader in Klamath County. He has also been very involved in
helping Klamath First Harvest to grow and provide food for the many poor and indigent in the
county.

Within the medical field, Dr. Calvert helped establish the Federally Qualified Health Care Center-
Klamath Open Door Clinic and is also an examiner for Klamath/Lake County Child Abuse Response
and Evaluation Services. Additionally, Dr. Calvert has helped rural Oregon by advancing medical
knowledge, services and education through his deep involvement with Area Health Education
Centers in both Oregon and on a national level. He is also very active in Oregon Rural Practice-based
Research Network and the North American Primary Care Research Group.

Dr.Calvert received his B.A. at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and his medical
degree from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. in 1976.
Dr. Calvert and his wife, Wendy A. Warren, M.D., have five children.

The Doctor-Citizen of the Year Award was first issued by the OMA in 1957 and is intended to
acknowledge the significant contributions of individual Oregon doctors to their communities and
serve as examples and inspirations for their medical colleagues in the importance of civic
involvement beyond the practice of medicine.