Dr. Crayton is board certified neurologist, with a specialty in Multiple Sclerosis. She grew up in Los Angeles but came east to attend medical school at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. After that, she pursued a residency in adult neurology at Georgetown University Hospital. She subsequently did a fellowship in multiple sclerosis at Georgetown and established a full time MS center at Georgetown. She left Georgetown and established the MS Center of Greater Washington in 2007, the only full-time non academic MS center in the mid Atlantic region. She has been a principal investigator in clinical trials for MS therapeutics and has been involved with developing a treatment algorithm for symptom management in MS. She lectures to patients as well as physicians, nationwide and globally, as part of her mission to educate and improve the lives of those living with MS. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband, Mike, who runs her business. They have 3 adult sons.