Dr. Mollayeva received her medical degree from the Moscow Medical Academy and completed her epidemiology residency at the Turkmen State Medical University, and worked in the field of disease prevention. After immigrating to Canada in 2003, she became involved in sleep medicine, a passion that drove her pursuit of doctoral studies in the field of sleep and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Mollayeva has won several scholarships and awards, including the CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Award for her project “Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness among Ontario Workers with Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence and Impact”. This research was conducted at the Toronto Rehab-UHN. Dr. Mollayeva is currently a member of the Rehabilitation Science Institute’s Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, RST, RPSGT, she is a Researcher on Sleep in Traumatic Brain Injury at Toronto Rehab, and a Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic Program Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Sleep Disorders and Sleep Medicine, Sleep Genetics and Sleep Apnea, Rehabilitation Medicine, Sleep