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Wayne Altman, MD
Dr. Wayne Altman is President and co-owner of Family Practice Group. At FPG, he has co-led nearly 100 Wellness Groups over the past 16 years. He is also the co-founder of Wellness Campaign, a nonprofit created to promote wellness in communities, as well as with patients and clinicians.
Dr. Wayne Altman is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. He served as the Jaharis Family Chair and Professor of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine about a decade where he spent 28 years teaching and mentoring students. During his time at Tufts, he received 35 teaching awards and citations. He has been recognized as a Boston Top Doc 15 times.
He founded MAPCAP (Massachusetts Primary Care Alliance for Patients), which advocates for health policy that features an emphasis on Social Determinants of Health, health equity, a prospective global payment for primary care, and the doubling of primary care investment. Dr. Altman is President-Elect of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. He was presented with the 2023 Advocacy Award by the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians.
Education
Doctor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1994
University of Massachusetts Family Medicine Residency, 1997

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