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Catherine Fichten earned her Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from McGill University where she is also an Associate Professor. In addition to teaching at 星空传媒视频 and McGill, she works at the Jewish General Hospital in the Cognitive-Behaviour and Psychotherapy Research Unit. 聽She is the co-director of the Adaptech Research Network. Her research focuses on two areas; facilitating the postsecondary education of聽students with disabilities and sleep聽issues, including insomnia, sleep apnea, non-refreshing sleep, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Most recently, she聽was awarded funding from the Reussite Scholaire program for the use of information technologies to help students with disabilities. She聽is the Principal Investigator of a three-year grant on driving and sleep apnea, and a co-investigator on a Concordia led 聽team research grant for the聽.

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Publications

• Fichten, C.S., Nguyen, M.N., Budd, J., Barile, M., Asuncion, J., Jorgensen, M., Amsel, R., & Tibbs, A. 鈥淐ollege and university students with disabilities: 鈥淢odifiable鈥� personal and school related factors聽pertinent to grades and graduation鈥�. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability.#12
• Fichten, C.S., Nguyen, M.N., King, L., Havel, A., Mimouni, Z., Barile, M., Budd, J., Jorgensen, S.,Chauvin, A., & Gutberg, J. (2014). 鈥淗ow well do they read? Brief English and French screening tools for college students.鈥� International Journal of Special Education, 29(1), 33-46.
• Barile, M., Fichten, C.S., Jorgensen, S. & Havel, A. (2013). 鈥淓mployment opportunities for graduates with聽disabilities: A step forward鈥�. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal,8(4), 46-56.
• Fichten, C. S., Nguyen, M. N., King, L., Barile, M., Havel, A., Mimouni, Z., Chauvin, A., Budd, J.,Raymond, O., Juhel, J.-C.,Asuncion, J. (2013). 鈥淧ortrait de l鈥檜tilisation des TIC par les coll茅giens ayant聽des troubles d鈥檃pprentissage, les bons lecteurs et les tr猫s faibles lecteurs鈥�. P茅dagogie coll茅giale, 26(4),38-42.
• Fichten, C. S., Nguyen, M. N., King, L., Barile, M., Havel, A., Mimouni, Z., Chauvin, A., Budd, J.,Raymond, O., Juhel, J.-C.,Asuncion, J. (2013). 鈥淚nformation and communication technology profiles of聽college students with learning disabilities and adequate and very poor readers.鈥� Journal of Education and聽Learning, 2(1), 176-188.
• Fichten, C.S., Creti, L., Rizzo, D., Bailes, S., Baltzan, M., Amsel, R. & Libman, E. (2013). 鈥淒o all individuals with sleep apnea suffer from daytime sleepiness? A preliminary investigation鈥�. Journal of Health聽Psychology, 18(6), 750 鈥� 761.
• Rios Romenets, S., Creti, L., Fichten, C., Bailes, S., Libman, E., Pelletier, A., & Postuma, R.A. (2013).鈥滵oxepin and cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in patients with Parkinson鈥檚 disease: A randomized study鈥�. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 19(7), 670-675.

Contributions to Dawson’s Community

In addition to bringing a significant amount of research funding to the college, Catherine is the co-Director聽of the which is a multidisciplinary funded research team based out of 星空传媒视频.