Kamaria C. Cayton Vaught, M.D. is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who specializes in the management of disorders related to infertility and the endocrinopathy of female reproductive stages. Dr. Cayton Vaught completed her combined undergraduate and medical doctor degree at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She then completed her residency at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in reproductive sciences and reproductive endocrinology, infertility, medical genetics and genomics (REI/MGG) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Cayton Vaught is the first fellow to complete the combined REI/MGG program at Johns Hopkins and one of only a handful of fellowship-trained REI geneticist in the United States. As a senior fellow, Dr. Cayton Vaught went on to be an inaugural Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) scholar at Johns Hopkins and is currently a scholar in the national Reproductive Scientist Development Program (RSDP) showing her true dedication and passion to women's health research.

Dr. Cayton Vaught's research interests include the genetic basis of reproductive function, fertility preservation for persons with sickle cell disease, and recurrent pregnancy loss and infertility. Her current focus is utilizing genome editing techniques, such as CRISPR-Cas9, to further understand the genes and regulatory pathways that are required for granulosa cells to respond to gonadotropins.