Dr Kalivas is an Emergency Care doctor. I've been fortunate to have been treated at Covenant Healthcare's Emergency Care Center twice by him thru the years and my husband once by Dr Kalivas thru the years. Dr Kalivas is pleasant, thorough, interested, listens well, explains things well, and is reassuring. Dr Kalivas was even able to convince my bull-headed husband to agree to go to a pain management clinic for his back, something I hadn't been able to convince him to do.