Local doctor elected to national board

Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann of Westlake Village has been elected to a two-year term of the board of directors of the National Association of Medical Communicators (NAMC). She is a board-certified pediatrician in private practice, clinical instructor at UCLA and author.

As an active fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), she is on the executive board of the section on media and co-chairman of the media resource team. Altmann is on the editorial board of the AAP’s best-selling parenting book, "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5," and is a columnist for Los Angeles Family magazine and a parenting workshop instructor.

Altmann has regularly appeared as a medical expert on numerous television programs including KEYT (ABC affiliate) Santa Barbara morning news and Lifetime’s "What Should You Do?" She is currently a regular guest on the PBS parenting show "A Place of Our Own" and on the Food Network program "Take It Off!" As a spokesperson for the AAP, the Evenflo Safe Baby and Toddler Council and Ross Pediatric Nutrition, she has been featured in several educational videos. Both independently and through her work with the AAP Media Resource Team, Altmann has advised many television shows, including "ER," "Family Law" and "Citizen Baines."

NAMC is comprised of nearly 300 medical communicators—both physician broadcasters and other healthcare and communications professionals—dedicated to providing the public with complete, accurate and current health- care news and information. NAMC provides its members with professional development and networking opportunities.