William Rosenblatt

William Rosenblatt, an emeritus professor of anesthesiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Stanford before training in anesthesiology at Yale. Soon after completing his residency in anesthesiology, he founded REMEDY (Recovered Medical Equipment for the Developing World), which has a national and worldwide reach. The REMEDY subprogram, Med-Eq, distributed unused medical supplies from individuals and industry to charities all over the world.

Dr. Rosenblatt’s patient care, academic, teaching, and research interest is in difficult airway management. His two most significant contributions in this field are the Airway Approach Algorithm (which consists of five yes-or-no clinical questions, to be addressed prior to the management of the airway, a tool for organizing preoperative information concerning the airway; introduced in the Journal of Clinical Anesthesiology in June 2004), and Preoperative Endoscopic Airway Examination (which provides superior airway information and can reduce the use of unnecessary awake intubation; introduced in Anesthesia and Analgesia in March 2011).

He is past president of the Society for Airway Management, and a current member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on the Difficult Airway. His decision tree tool and infographic algorithm are some of the most significant changes to the ASA algorithm since its publication in 1993. His publications include the edited volume Master Techniques in Upper and Lower Airway Management (Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Heath, 2015). He served recently as an associate floor runner in the Smilow Cancer Hospital and retired from the School of Medicine after nearly thirty-five years as a faculty member.