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Maegan L. Calvert

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Federal Grant PI

Assistant Professor

6 h-index 27 pubs 158 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Adult
  • Prisoners
  • Crime Victims
  • Sex Offenses
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Adolescent
  • Young Adult
  • Male
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Caregivers
  • Middle Aged
  • Fear
  • Longitudinal Studies

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Biography and Research Information

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Maegan L. Calvert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research program focuses on understanding and addressing trauma, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges, particularly within vulnerable populations. A significant portion of her federally funded work, totaling over $3.2 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, investigates innovative care pathways and treatment effectiveness for individuals with co-occurring opioid use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, especially within correctional settings.

Calvert's publications reflect this focus, examining interpersonal and non-interpersonal cumulative traumas and their psychiatric symptoms in incarcerated women, as well as the effectiveness of exposure-based group therapy for sexual violence victimization in this population. Her work also extends to substance use disorder treatment, exploring modifiable risk factors and attrition. Beyond clinical applications, Calvert has contributed to the broader scientific community by investigating neuroimaging correlates of psychological resilience and advocating for open and reproducible science practices within neuroimaging research centers.

Her scholarly output includes 27 publications with 157 citations and an h-index of 6. She actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Melissa J. Zielinski, Tatiana Wolfe, G. Andrew James, and Clint Kilts, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications. Calvert maintains an active lab website.

Metrics

  • h-index: 6
  • Publications: 27
  • Citations: 158

Positions

  • Assistant Professor 2022–present
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Psychiatric Research Institute, Brain Imaging Research Center Institutional directory

Selected Publications

  • 134 Toward transparency and trustworthy translation: An open and reproducible workflow for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (2026)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Population-Level Age Effects on the White Matter Structure Subserving Cognitive Flexibility in the Human Brain (2026)
    eNeuro 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The PedsQL Family Impact Module for Assessment of Foster and Kinship Caregiver Functioning in Pediatric Primary Care (2025)
    Journal of Pediatric Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • A qualitative analysis of formerly incarcerated women’s perspectives on a prison-based perinatal support program (2025)
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Neuroimaging correlates of psychological resilience: an Open Science systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
    Frontiers in Neuroimaging 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 511 Functional link between myelination integrity in the connectome of the cingulum bundle and information processing speed in RRMS (2025)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Population-level age effects on the white matter structure subserving cognitive flexibility in the human brain (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Follow-Up Care After Maltreatment: Sociodemographic Associations With Timeliness in a Southern State (2022)
    Child Maltreatment 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Lessons learned: A neuroimaging research center's transition to open and reproducible science (2022)
    Frontiers in Big Data 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Increasing the efficacy of exposure using a whole brain approach to real-time fMRI neurofeedback among female victims of interpersonal violence (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Lessons Learned: A Neuroimaging Research Center’s Transition to Open and Reproducible Science (2022)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Interpersonal vs. Non-Interpersonal Cumulative Traumas and Psychiatric Symptoms in Treatment-Seeking Incarcerated Women (2020)
    Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 41 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predicting attrition in long-term residential substance use disorder treatment: A modifiable risk factors perspective. (2019)
    Psychological Services 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Changes in acceptance of dating violence and physical dating violence victimization in a longitudinal study with teens (2018)
    Child Abuse & Neglect 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • THE CAREGIVING HELPLESSNESS QUESTIONNAIRE: EVIDENCE FOR VALIDITY AND UTILITY WITH MOTHERS OF INFANTS (2016)
    Infant Mental Health Journal 38 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 5 $3,292,012 total

NIH Contact PI Sep 2024 - May 2029

Effectiveness, Implementation, and Cost of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Prisons

National Institute on Drug Abuse $658,152 R01
NIH Contact PI Sep 2023 - Aug 2025

Developing and Testing Innovative Care Pathways for Screening and Treatment of OUD/PTSD in Jails

National Institute on Drug Abuse $915,611 R61
NIH Contact PI Sep 2023 - Jul 2029

Developing and Testing Innovative Care Pathways for Screening and Treatment of OUD/PTSD in Jails

National Institute on Drug Abuse $1,146,403 R33
NIH Contact PI Apr 2019 - Mar 2025

Leveraging Implementation Science to Increase Access to Trauma Treatment for Incarcerated Drug Users

National Institute on Drug Abuse $75,535 K23
NIH Contact PI Jul 2009 - Jun 2029

Translational Training in Addiction

National Institute on Drug Abuse $496,311 T32

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