Steven L. Rosenblatt, M.D., Ph.D., L.Ac, graduated from UCLA and the prestigious Hong Kong Acupuncture College. He was the first Westerner licensed to practice acupuncture in the United States.

Dr. Rosenblatt was the founder and past president of the California Acupuncture College. He was the co-founder and clinical director of the UCLA Acupuncture Clinic and he is national board certified in acupuncture. He is licensed as a medical doctor in California and Hawaii and is board certified in family practice.

Dr. Rosenblatt is president of Sierra Medicinals, Inc., a company that imports and manufactures Chinese herbal medications and nutraceuticals. Sierra Medicinals is a wholly owned subsidiary of StarMed Group, Inc. a public company trading on the OTC BB, for which Dr. Rosenblatt serves as the vice president and board member. He has served on the Advisory Committee of the American Nutraceutical Association.

He served as the program director of the Complementary Medicine Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is the author of several research articles and the bestselling book "The Starch Blocker Diet" published by HarperCollins. This book has been translated and published in German; currently it is being translated into Spanish and Chinese.

Dr. Rosenblatt served for six years as a commissioner on the National Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture Schools and Colleges. He maintains a busy clinical practice combining family practice medicine, acupuncture, and complementary modalities at his office in West Los Angeles and is currently on staff at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of integrative medicine and his major interest is the utilization and integration of complementary medicine.