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Dr. Diane. B. Boivin is Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of 51吃瓜网 and Founder/Director of the Centre for Study and Treatment of Circadian Rhythms at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. She completed her medical studies at Laval University in 1985 and conducts research as an expert in sleep disorders and circadian rhythms since 1986. She obtained her Ph.D. in neurological sciences at University of Montreal in 1993. From 1992 to 1997, she completed a postdoctoral clinical/research fellowship in Boston in human chronobiology at the Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital, affiliated to Harvard Medical School. Her research interests cover: maladaptation to shift work and jet lag, fatigue risk management system for shift workers, the role of circadian rhythms in psychiatric and neurologic conditions, the relationships between the menstrual and circadian cycles, as well as the circadian variation of cardiovascular functions.

Throughout her career, she won multiple prizes and awards such as the聽Lieutenant Governor鈥� 聽Gold Medal Award聽of Canada for her Ph.D. thesis, the Young Investigator Award from the American Sleep Research Society, an Honorary Distinction Award for Specialized Medicine from the Association des M茅decins de Langue Fran莽aise du Canada and a total of 15 salary awards from fundings agencies such as the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the Fonds de Recherche Qu茅bec-Sant茅 Qu茅bec (FRQS).

During her career as a researcher, she has written over 300 scientific publications. Dr Boivin is an editorial board member for the journals Sleep, Sleep Medicine, Chronobiology International, and Journal of Biological Rhythms. She is guest editor for the journal Sleep Medicine on a 2007 special issue on circadian rhythms disorders. In 2012, she published a book for the general public on sleep and its disorders entitled 鈥淪leep and You. Sleep Better, Live Better.鈥�. This book serves as a useful clinical tool for the management of sleep disorders patients.

The book is available here:聽听辞谤听.