October 29 - November 2, 2024 | Boston, MA |
Anita H. Clayton, MD, Wilford W. Spradlin Professor and Chair of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences and Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has focused her research on major depressive disorder, mood disorders associated with reproductive-life events in women (reproductive psychiatry), sexual dysfunction related to illness and medications, and assessment and treatment of primary sexual disorders. She has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers, and developed and validated several measurement tools including the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ), the Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory (SIDI-F), and the Decreased Sexual Desire Screener (DSDS). She co-edited Women’s Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook, and is the author of Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy for the general public. She is the President-Elect of the American Sociey of Clinical Psychipharmacology (ASCP), and has served as President of the International Society for Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), as Vice-Chair for Women’s Sexual Health for the 3rd and 4th International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) in 2009 and 2015, and on the advisory committee on Conditions Related to Sexual Health Chapter of the International Classification of Diseases version 11 (ICD-11).