Anita H. Clayton, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., I.F.

Biography

Anita H. Clayton, M.D., is the Wilford W. Spradlin Professor and Chair of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences and Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Virginia. She has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers.

She has focused her clinical practice and research on:

• major depressive disorder – Principal Investigator for essentially all the new antidepressants since 1991
• mood disorders associated with reproductive-life events in women (reproductive psychiatry) – diagnosis and treatment
• sexual dysfunction (SD) and other adverse effects of psychiatric/medical illness and substances/medications, and algorithmic management of SD
• sexual disorders – nomenclature/classification; validated measures of SD, including the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ), the Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F), and the Decreased Sexual Desire Screener (DSDS)

She has served on the Board of Directors (BOD) for the American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP), as Program Committee Co-Chair for 2 years, and began her 6-year term as President Elect/President/Past President in 2023.

Dr. Clayton co-edited Women’s Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook and authored Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy for the general public. She is an international leader in female sexual dysfunction, having served as Past President of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH); Vice-Chair for Women’s Sexual Health for the 3rd and 4th International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM); most recently as Co-Chair of the ICSM Committee on Psychiatric Disorders, Psychopharmacology, and Sexual Dysfunction; a member of the WHO advisory committee on the ICD-11 chapter, Conditions Related to Sexual Health; and a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) – 4 meetings.