Anita H. Clayton

Anita H. Clayton is the Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and the David C. Wilson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. From 2005 to 2007, she was the President of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH).

Early life and education
Born in Pensacola, Florida, she was the daughter of a Navy pilot, and her family moved to several locations worldwide to follow her father's assignments. Clayton completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia and was awarded an M.D. degree by the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1982. Her residency was in Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and she then was awarded a Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology. She served as a U.S. Navy physician for four years before returning to join the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1990.

Career and research
Clayton's research interests are in psychopharmacology, sexual dysfunction with psychiatric illness and treatment; sexual disorders; and depressive disorders associated with the female reproductive cycle.