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David Perlman, PhD, MS
David is a veteran educator, scholar, and author in the areas of medical ethics, research regulation, and the use of technology in pedagogy. He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 presentations on these topics (his full CV is here). In these areas, David has worked at a big four accounting firm as a consultant, an ethics educator at a major pharmaceutical company, an executive at a state department of health, and finally a visiting professor at the University of Sciences from 2009 to 2022. After being placed in a new department at the University of Sciences in 2018, David shifted his scholarly interests to the use of role playing games (RPGs) in psychology, especially how they apply to moral development and those with neurodevelopmental disabilities. As part of this shift, he obtained a MS in Health Psychology in 2022.
In terms of his geek cred, he has been involved in RPGs since the early 1980s, both as a player and a game master and has published a choose-your-own-adventure bioethics thriller for the Kindle platform. Currently, David works as a Dungeon Master for Dungeons and Dragons organized play at Top Deck Games in Cherry Hill, NJ, runs a non-profit to bring the joy and prosocial benefits of RPGs to kids and adults in the Philadelphia area, teaches part-time at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, serves as an advocate for live kidney donation at Jefferson Health, and works as a standardized patient at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. In July, David will begin work as a LEND fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to gain first-hand knowledge of providing programs and services to neurodivergent people or those with developmental disabilities.
Click here to download his RPG resume. Click here to request David's background check and FBI fingerprint report.
David is a veteran educator, scholar, and author in the areas of medical ethics, research regulation, and the use of technology in pedagogy. He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 presentations on these topics (his full CV is here). In these areas, David has worked at a big four accounting firm as a consultant, an ethics educator at a major pharmaceutical company, an executive at a state department of health, and finally a visiting professor at the University of Sciences from 2009 to 2022. After being placed in a new department at the University of Sciences in 2018, David shifted his scholarly interests to the use of role playing games (RPGs) in psychology, especially how they apply to moral development and those with neurodevelopmental disabilities. As part of this shift, he obtained a MS in Health Psychology in 2022.
In terms of his geek cred, he has been involved in RPGs since the early 1980s, both as a player and a game master and has published a choose-your-own-adventure bioethics thriller for the Kindle platform. Currently, David works as a Dungeon Master for Dungeons and Dragons organized play at Top Deck Games in Cherry Hill, NJ, runs a non-profit to bring the joy and prosocial benefits of RPGs to kids and adults in the Philadelphia area, teaches part-time at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, serves as an advocate for live kidney donation at Jefferson Health, and works as a standardized patient at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. In July, David will begin work as a LEND fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to gain first-hand knowledge of providing programs and services to neurodivergent people or those with developmental disabilities.
Click here to download his RPG resume. Click here to request David's background check and FBI fingerprint report.