Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep Disorders and Return to Work

Dr. Angela Colantonio is the Director of the University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, and a Professor of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. She holds a CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health and is a Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Senior Scientist. She heads an internationally recognized research program on acquired brain injury focusing on vulnerable populations, work-related TBI, return to work, and sex and gender analyses. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American College of Epidemiology and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. She has authored over 250 publications.

Dr. Tatyana Mollayeva is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Acquired Brain injury Lab of the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Angela Colantonio on topics of sleep, cognitive decline and comorbidity in persons with traumatic brain injury. She received medical degree from the Moscow Medical Academy, epidemiology specialty from the Turkmen State Medical University, and PhD in rehabilitation and neuro- sciences from the University of Toronto. Over the course of her professional career she has served numerous roles within healthcare and disability management systems. In 2015 she was a recipient of the Debra Wilkerson Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine for her early career contributions to the field of medical rehabilitation.