Oral Histories

Clayton, Paula

Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Paula Clayton joined the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) as their medical director in 2006. Dr. Clayton has been a researcher and educator in academic psychiatry for more than forty years. In 1960, she graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her residency in psychiatry at Washington University and then joined the faculty there from 1965 to 1980. She was then recruited to the University of Minnesota School of Medicine where she was Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry for twenty years. Most recently, she was a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where she taught at the psychiatric outpatient clinic for five years. She has published four books, written more than 150 papers and 20 book chapters.

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Dates: 01-Dec
Interviewer: T.Ban

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