About

Dr. Clayton is a Clinical professor of Psychiatry in the UNC Department of Psychiatry. Her clinical focus is Inpatient Psychiatry, particularly working with individuals with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.  She is currently working as an Attending Psychiatrist at UNC 3 Neuroscience hospital- Psychotic disorders inpatient unit and is the current Medical Director for this unit.   Dr. Clayton also works on a new virtual inpatient service at UNC Caldwell-Jonas Hill hospital.  She previously worked at UNC Wake STEP clinic in Raleigh from 2013 to 2015 and then at UNC WakeBrook hospital inpatient psychiatric unit in Raleigh from 2015 to 2023 when UNC WakeBrook hospital closed.

Dr. Clayton joined the faculty at the UNC Dept of Psychiatry in 1998 doing inpatient work on the Psychotic Disorders and Geropsychiatry unit until 2007. She has often been involved in teaching psychiatry residents and medical students. She was the Medical Director of the Psychotic Disorders Inpatient unit from 1998 to 2007 and was the founding co-chairman in the Brushes with Life: Art, Artists & Mental Illness gallery from 2000 to 2007. She and her family moved to Christchurch New Zealand in 2007.  Dr. Clayton did inpatient and outpatient community mental health work at the Canterbury District Health Board and was involved in teaching psychiatric registrars, house officers and medical students from the University of Otago School of Medicine in Christchurch until mid-2013.