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THE CENTRE

In 1992, the University of Toronto approved the establishment of the University of Toronto Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology. Dr. Harvey Moldofsky, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, was appointed as the founding Director of the Centre.

The faculty of the Centre has over 40 professional staff who, together, coordinate research, education, and medical services. The Centre serves as the focus for fundamental and clinical research on biologic rhythms, sleep-wake physiology, and their roles as determinants to health and disease. The research activities are carried out in various laboratories in university departments within the Faculties of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, as well as the Defense and Civil Institute of Environment Medicine and university-affiliated institutions or hospitals. The Centre offers undergraduate, graduate, professional, technical, industrial/government, and public educational programmes. Sleep disorder laboratories and clinics in eight university-affiliated hospitals provide diagnostic and treatment services for patients' various sleep-related medical disorders. These laboratories and clinics are located in The Toronto Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children, Mount Sinai Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, The Wellesley Hospital, and West Park Hospital.