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Dr. Patrick J. Strollo Jr., the 2010-2011 President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care. A leading sleep medicine clinician and researcher, Dr. Strollo holds a number of leadership positions at the university. He is the Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep Medicine Institute and Medical Director of the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center. In addition he is the Director of the Office of Clinical Research for the Schools of Allied Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Strollo received his MD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1981 and trained at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He is certified in Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He has been an active member of the AASM since 1987. He was elected to the AASM Board of Directors in 2005. He has also served as the Director of the National Sleep Medicine Course, as a member of the Standards of Practice and Education committees, and as Chair of the Sleep Medicine Courses Committee.
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Patrick Joseph Leahy (/ˈleɪhi/; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a seat to which he was first elected in 1974. A member of the Democratic Party, Leahy held the position of president pro tempore of the United States Senate from December 17, 2012 to January 3, 2015, and was thus during that time third in the presidential line of succession. Now in his eighth six-year term of office, he is currently (since the December 2012 death of Daniel Inouye) the most senior member of the Senate, and is also the last of the Senate's "Watergate Babies" – Democrats first elected to Congress in 1974, following President Richard Nixon's August 9, 1974 resignation over the Watergate scandal.[1] Additionally, Leahy remains the only sitting U.S. Senator to have served during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Leahy received the title of President pro tempore emeritus in January 2015.
The current dean of the state's congressional delegation, Leahy is Vermont's longest-serving U.S. Senator, and as of 2020 is the only Democrat the state has ever elected to the Senate. He is the former chairman of the Agriculture and Judiciary Committees, and has served as the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee since 2017. In 2001, Leahy was one of the two U.S. Senators targeted by the anthrax attacks that killed five people.