Dr. Richard Levitan is an emergency physician who invented a device for direct laryngoscopy imaging (the Airway Cam) in 1994 and has since been continuously involved in imaging and researching laryngoscopy techniques. He has given more than 150 invited lectures on laryngoscopy, has published numerous articles, and serves as an editor and reviewer for several journals. For more than three years he has run small group, cadaver based airway workshops and other seminars in airway management that have involved nearly 500 physicians. In October of 2004 he published his own textbook, "The Airway Cam Guide to Intubation and Practical Emergency Airway Management".