Our Staff

Dora Zalai
MD (Hun) Dipl Psych (UK)

Dora Zalai graduated in medicine sum cum laude in Hungary and focused on pediatric neurology. After immigrating to Canada she completed a research fellowship in the health and disease psychiatry program at the University of Toronto and then worked in the sleep program at the University Health Network.

Dora’s passion for behavioural sleep medicine inspired her to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Ryerson University where her focus is to study the psychological aspects of fatigue in chronic medical conditions and sleep problems following traumatic brain injury.

Dora has a long standing experience in providing cognitive behavioural treatment for individuals who have a combination of sleep difficulties and medical/mental health problems. She has an aptitude in conveying complex health information in an easily digestible form; to this end she has contributed to an internet based program on insomnia and four booklets for patients on topics ranging from insomnia and sleep apnea treatment to cultural aspects of psychiatry.