Jeanne F. Duffy, MBA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Chronobiology Core
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital/EH&E
Biography
Dr. Jeanne F. Duffy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an Associate Neuroscientist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH). She is the Director of the Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders Program within the Division of Sleep Medicine (DSM) at BWH, and is Director of the Partners Health Care Chronobiology Core. Dr. Duffy received an M.B.A. from the Simmons School of Management in 1991 and a Ph.D. in biology (physiology and neurobiology) from Northeastern University in 1998. She was a Laboratory Instructor and Lecturer at Northeastern University from 1997-2000, a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Sleep Medicine from 1998-2000, and an Instructor in Medicine from 2000-2002.
Dr. Duffy is a preceptor, faculty member, and Curriculum Committee member for the institutional Training Program (T32) in Sleep, Circadian and Respiratory Neurobiology; is a faculty member for the Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry program in the Division on Aging at HMS; and serves as a laboratory host for several outreach programs sponsored by HMS. She serves on the DSM fellowship selection committee, and is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and funding agencies within the US and abroad. She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, and the European Sleep Research Society. Dr. Duffy is also a longtime member of the Sleep Research Society (SRS), and currently serves on the SRS Trainee Education Advisory Committee, is Section Head of the Circadian Rhythms Research Section of the SRS, and is a member of the editorial board for the journal Sleep.
Dr. Duffy has published widely in the fields of sleep and chronobiology, and her research interests include basic and applied aspects of circadian physiology in humans, how the circadian timing system impacts sleep and subsequent waking performance, and individual differences in sleep timing, duration and need.