University of Pittsburgh
The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh is deeply committed to a mission of providing the highest quality, compassionate patient care for patients with lung disease, to mentoring and training medical students, residents, fellows and young faculty, and to research and scientific discovery. PACCM possesses strong translational programs of clinical and research excellence in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute lung injury, interstitial lung disease, sleep medicine, cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation, pulmonary vascular disease, HIV associated lung disease, critical care medicine and the functional genomics of lung diseases. This comprehensive approach to lung disease reflects the deep commitment of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to support the mission of PACCM.
Pat Strollo, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM
Dr. Patrick J. Strollo is a Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Director of the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center and Co-Director of the Sleep Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.
He received his MD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1981 and trained in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary / Critical Care at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Executive Committee of the American Thoracic Society Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology Assembly. He is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease Board of Directors. He is a member of the National Football League’s Cardiovascular Health Committee. He has been recognized by Best Doctors® in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors in Pulmonary Disease.
Dr Strollo’s clinical work focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and long term management of Sleep Apnea and Respiratory Care of patients with neuromuscular disease.
Sanjay Patel, MD, MS
Dr. Sanjay R. Patel is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Science in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Director of the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center and leads the Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research.
He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, trained in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and did his fellowship in Pulmonary / Critical Care at the combined program between Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a past Chair of the Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology Assembly of the American Thoracic Society and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Assembly.
Dr. Patel’s research focuses on the epidemiology of sleep apnea and sleep patterns and the bi-directional relationships between sleep exposures and cardio-metabolic disease and risk factors. A particular area of interest is the role of sleep in mediating racial health disparities in cardiovascular and metabolic disease.