Dr. Steven Rosenblatt, MD

Steven Rosenblatt was originally trained as an Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Doctor by Dr. Ju Gim Shek. He was taken to Hong Kong where he graduated from the Hong Kong Acupuncture College as the first Western student of Dr. James Tin Yau So. Upon his return he organized and was the first clinical director of the UCLA Acupuncture Research Project in the medical school department of Anesthesiology. This was the first acupuncture clinic in a medical school in the US. Dr. Rosenblatt brought Dr. So to this country where they lived together in Los Angeles before moving east to set up the James-Stevens Acupuncture Center in Boston, Mass. This first training program in the US, grew to become the New England School of Acupuncture. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Dr. Rosenblatt established the California Acupuncture College with branches in Santa Barbara (which later became the Santa Barbara Acupuncture College) and San Diego (which evolved to become the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine). Being actively involved in the political process of creating a licensure program for Acupuncture, Dr. Rosenblatt helped create licensing regulations as he spoke and lobbied for legislative action in the states of Nevada, Oregon, and California. He was the first Westerner licensed to practice Acupuncture in the US with license number 8 in the state of Oregon in 1974. Dr. Rosenblatt received his PhD from UCLA with a dissertation entitled “Electrophysiological Correlates of Acupuncture Points”. This was the first doctoral research dissertation on Acupuncture at a major university in the United States. As president of the California Acupuncture College, Dr. Rosenblatt helped establish several of the national educational and accreditation agencies. He served on the National Accreditation Commission for Schools and Colleges of Oriental Medicine for six years and helped review and accredit many of the acupuncture and oriental medicine schools in the US.