Nicola Clayton
Contact:
naclayton@ucdavis.edu

Titles:

  • Senior Pharmacist, UCD Health, Infectious Diseases
  • Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy: UC San Francisco, School of Pharmacy

Education:
PharmD., UCSF School of Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA (2014)

Post-graduate Training:

  • PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, UC Davis Medical Center, 2014-2015
  • PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency, UC Davis Medical Center, 2015-2016

Research Interests:
Sociobehavioral Approaches to Antimicrobial Stewardship, Antimicrobial/Infectious Diseases Education for Healthcare Providers, Resistant Gram Negative Infections

Practice Philosophy:
Providing high quality recommendations and educating providers on antimicrobial therapy that balances the need for effective therapy with the goal of preserving antimicrobials for future use.

Rotations Precepted:

  • Infectious Diseases Consult (PGY1 and PGY2)
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship (PGY1 and PGY2)
  • Additional PGY2 ID rotations precepted please see PGY2 in Infectious Diseases Link

Bio:
Dr. Nicola Clayton is a Senior Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacist at UC Davis Health. She completed her PGY1 Acute Care residency here at UCDMC in 2015 and went on to complete a PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency at UCDMC in 2016, and then continued to work at UCDMC as a clinical pharmacist practicing in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Clayton has a special interest in the communication skills pharmacists use to build relationships and convey recommendations to interdisciplinary teams and she considers herself an antibiotic sommelier, pairing the correct drug with the identified bug. She is also the pharmacist leader of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UCD Health, which was designated as an IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence in 2019.

Dr. Clayton is a board-certified infectious diseases pharmacist. In addition, she holds a volunteer faculty position with the UCSF School of Pharmacy and was nominated for Preceptor of the Year 2016-2017 and 2018-2019. She completed UCSF’s Master Preceptor Program and co-presented “Make your Voice Heard: Teaching Learners How to Make Effective Recommendations”, a preceptor development continuing education program, as part of UCDMC’s Pharmacy Grand Rounds Series.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading literature no one else likes, traveling to the most obnoxious tourist destinations, and wrangling her two daughters into wearing matching outfits.