Carol Duncan Clayton, Ph.D.

Dr. Clayton is a licensed, practicing psychologist with 25 years of healthcare experience in the public and private sector, including non-profit and private practice work.  Before joining CMT, Dr. Clayton was the Executive Director for the North Carolina Council of Community MH/DD/SA Programs.  She began her career at a local NC state psychiatric facility followed by leading regional public child and family services under a capitated Medicaid waiver in NC from 1991 – 1994. Dr. Clayton also served as the Executive Director for Magellan Health Services for the South Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia from 1994 – 1999.  In that capacity, Dr. Clayton oversaw risk and non-risk based behavioral healthcare service for over two million lives. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.