Michael Rotblatt, MD, PharmD, FACP

Dr. Rotblatt has been involved with our Internal Medicine Residency Program for over 25 years and is intimately engaged in the educational curricula of the program. With a degree in Pharmacy (UC San Francisco) as well as Medicine (UC Irvine), Dr. Rotblatt brings a unique knowledge of Pharmacology and Therapeutics to our trainees.

Dr. Rotblatt is a former resident and chief resident from our program and completed a UCLA fellowship in Medical Education in 1996-1997. His medical career started as an academic primary care internist at the Sepulveda VA. He joined the Olive View faculty as an Associate Program Director in 2003 and carried this position through 2022. He was Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) for several years and is currently Vice-Chair of General Medicine Operations. Dr. Rotblatt is active in the Southern California ACP Region 1 chapter, chairing the annual Poster competition in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He received the ACP Laureate award for professional accomplishments in 2012.

As a former hospital pharmacist, Dr. Rotblatt has a special interest in pharmacology and therapeutics, and chairs the hospital’s Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. He also has a particular interest in herbal medicines, dietary supplements and other CAM disciplines. He co-authored the 2002 book “Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine” and has lectured widely on this subject.

Dr. Rotblatt is an active educator for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, teaching medical students at UCLA and at Olive View.  He is currently site director for the Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship at Olive View.  His academic interests and areas of didactic teaching for students and residents include, among others, preoperative medicine, pain management, drug interactions, herbal medicines, dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, and the art of “teaching and feedback.”