Director, Associate Professor

Dr. Colleen E. Carney is an Associate Professor and Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She is the current President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Insomnia and Other Sleep Disorders Special Interest Group. Dr. Carney was previously on faculty at Duke University Medical Center, where she was a recipient of the prestigious National Sleep Foundation’s Pickwick Fellowship.

Her main research areas are: how to best treat insomnia in the context of other mental health conditions and understanding comorbid insomnias. Her research has received support from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH076856), National Institute of Nursing Research (R21 NR010539), the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. She received the Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation.