| Lawrence K. Altman | |
| Birth Date: | 19 June 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Physician, journalist |
| Field: | Internal medicine |
| Work Institutions: | The New York Times |
Lawrence K. Altman (born June 19, 1937)[1] is an American internal medicine physician and medical journalist who has worked for The New York Times since 1969, when he first became the paper's medical correspondent.[2] He retired from his full-time position as medical correspondent in 2009,[3] but continues to work for the Times.[1] [4]
Altman is particularly known for his journalistic coverage of the health of American presidents and presidential candidates,[4] [5] though during his career at the Times, he wrote many prominent articles about other topics, including his coverage of the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak and the first article in a newspaper to break the story of the then-new disease of HIV/AIDS in 1981.[6] [7]