Julia Caldwell, M.D.

Dr. Caldwell is a board certified and fellowship trained pain management specialist. She has been practicing pain management for eleven years. She lives and works in the Bowling Green area. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Penn State University, where she was a Schreyer’s Honors Scholar, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She then completed her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati and then completed internship in internal medicine at St Josephs Mercy Hospital of Ann Arbor and then Anesthesia residency at the University of Michigan. After completing residency, she was trained at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Prior to working in Bowling Green, she worked in the Glasgow area and prior to that she was a professor at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine for six years. 

Dr. Caldwell was named a Kentucky Colonel in 2003 and she completed her Masters in Healthcare Administration degree in 2013. She was given Young Investigator Award by the American Pain Society in 2007. She was named the Top Pain Management Physician in Pennsylvania and Kentucky in 2018 by Top Doctor and has been consistently named to Top Doctors since 2013. She was recently named to the Who’s Who List by the Continental Who’s Who of National Business Leaders in 2018 as well. She has published numerous articles and several book chapters. Most recently she contributed the first chapter to the third edition of Medical Quality Management and published in 2019 in the Simulation in Healthcare about 3D printing and its implications to healthcare and medical teaching. 

Dr. Caldwell is actively committed to patient satisfaction and quality. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the American College of Medical Quality and is the committee co-chair for their member education and engagement committee. She also is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiology where she is an active member of the Ethics Committee and an editor for the Ethics Syllabus. Her professional interests include botox for migraines, cervical dystonia, and spasticity, intrathecal pumps – baclofen, prialt and opioid, cancer pain, pelvic and abdominal pain, kyphoplasty, and spinal cord stimulation. She enjoys gourmet cooking, opera, and reading. She is engaged to the love of her life, who is also a native Kentucky son and grew up in Metcalfe county.