E4 is a privately-held Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Dr. David Perlman is the President and Founder of E4.
E4's mission is to be a quality leader in ethics education and incorporate interactive and narrative technologies into ethics education.
To learn more about the genesis of E4 and its ethics education design technology and philosophy, please see the attached file at the bottom of this page describing E4's innovation journey as a small ethics education company.
To learn more about E4's mission, business model and philosophy, and the ethical values to which it subscribes, click here.
E4's President and Founder, David Perlman, Ph.D., maintains a LinkedIn profile at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidperlman; moreover, a bio appears below and a complete PDF copy of Dr. Perlman's curriculum vitae can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
E4 Bio for David Perlman, Ph.D.
David is the President and Founder of a unique ethics education company, E4 - Eclipse Ethics Education Enterprises, LLC (www.e-four.org). E4 provides ethics education services to clients at health-related organizations—whether they be pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, health centers, or professional associations. In the near future, E4 will be expanding its line of services to include an innovative instructional technology that can be delivered online or customized for live presentations.
In addition to operating his educational start-up company, David is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and an Associate at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. At the Penn School of Nursing, David teaches the required undergraduate ethics course for all nursing students. In 2008, he received the inaugural Teaching Award for Exceptional Undergraduate Instruction by the Student Nurse Association at Penn. At the Center, David supervises a masters student's final project and serves as a faculty facilitator in two Penn Med courses, the Ethics of Human Subjects Research and Bioethics and Professionalism.
David received his Ph.D. in philosophy specializing in medical ethics from the University of Tennessee in 2000, his master's degree in philosophy from Georgia State University in 1993, and his bachelor of science in biology, philosophy, and classics (Honors graduate) from Emory University in 1992. David's graduate training, dissertation, and fellowship training at the Medical University of South Carolina (1999) focused on the role of mediation in clinical ethics.
David's bioethics career thus far encompasses an entrepreneurial ethics education enterprise (2007 to present), government service for the State of New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services as Director of its Human Research Ethics Program (2006-2008), work in the pharmaceutical industry as a Senior Education Advisor at GlaxoSmithKline (2003-2006), a research ethics consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (2000-2003), and IRB coordinator at Chestnut Hill Hospital (1999).
David is also a former instructor at the Temple University’s School of Pharmacy Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Program, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on ethical issues related to research and health care delivery, and an award-winning teacher and scholar.