About Dr. Altman

Alan M. Altman, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing gynecologist who specializes in peri and post-menopausal care, problems with hormone replacement therapy and issues of mid-life sexuality. He his well known for his ability to sift through even the most complex problems in these areas and help guide women to the best kind of treatment if treatment is necessary. Over the past eighteen years he has been quoted in a variety of publications including Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Glamour and Self-magazine. He has appeared on such shows as Good Morning America, People are Talking, Getting Healthy and Doctor On Call. He has participated in numerous radio programs.

Dedicated to the education of women of all ages, he co-produced three highly acclaimed video productions on the subjects of menopause, fertility and adolescence. Dr. Altman lectures to hundreds of health care professionals each week teaching them better ways of understanding, diagnosing and treating women with complicated peri and post-menopausal problems. Through direct speaking engagements as well as audio conferences, Dr. Altman has helped instruct in one way or another up to fifty percent of the nation's obstetricians/gynecologists. He is now beginning to reach the primary care physicians who may very well turn out to be the future providers of women's health care. Whether he is teaching students at Harvard Medical School, giving grand rounds, instructing resident physicians or leading a seminar for couples at Canyon Ranch, his popular talks on such topics as perimenopause, menopause, sexuality and the state-of-the-art developments in hormone replacement therapy are well received by both the professional and the lay person.

In the last decade he has become a sought after speaker with a growing national reputation for introducing humor and candor into hard-to-discuss topics. He is about to become the national spokesperson for LEAP (Life's Hormones: Estrogen, Androgen and Progesterone) a national education program of the National Women's Health Resource Center.

Dr. Altman received his B.A. in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was graduated with honors from the New York University School of Medicine in 1975. He later completed his internship and residency at the Boston Lying-In and Free Hospital for Women, which then became the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He maintains his private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.