Dr. Altman grew up in Easton, PA and is a graduate of Easton Area High School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his dermatopathology fellowship at the Jefferson Medical College Institute for Dermatopathology, under the tutelage of the late Dr. A. Bernard Ackerman. Dr. Altman is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Dermatopathology. Prior to joining Advanced Dermatology full-time, he was the Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, NJ.