The National Institutes of Health has announced the appointment of ophthalmologist Janine Clayton, MD, as director for the Office of Research on Women's Health and associate director for Research on Women's Health, NIH, according to a news release.
Dr. Clayton has been serving as ORWH acting director since August 2011. Prior to her tenure as acting director, Dr. Clayton served as the ORWH deputy director for three years. Dr. Clayton currently co-chairs the NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers.
Prior to joining ORWH, Dr. Clayton was the deputy clinical director of the National Eye Institute, NIH. Dr. Clayton's research interests include autoimmune ocular diseases, and the role of sex and gender in health and disease. Dr. Clayton research interest includes ocular surface disease. She discovered a novel form of disease associated with premature ovarian insufficiency that affects young women.
Dr. Clayton received her MD from Howard University College of Medicine. She completed a residency in ophthalmology at the Medical College of Virginia and fellowship training in cornea and external disease at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital and in uveitis and ocular immunology at the National Eye Institute.
Dr. Clayton has been an attending physician and clinical investigator in cornea and uveitis at the NEI since 1996.
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