Ellen Pearlman

Born and raised on both coasts, Ellen graduated from Harvard and attended UCSF for medical school. She then trained in the NYU Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. Following a year as chief resident, she joined the faculty at NYU/Bellevue and ultimately served as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director for 7 years. She served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Advanced Clinical Learning (MS3 and MS4 years) for 9 years and then transitioned to the role of Associate Dean for Professionalism and Doctoring Skills at the Zucker School of Medicine for 3 years. She joined the Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac as the Senior Associate Dean for Education and an Associate Professore in the Department of Medical Sciences in January 2025. She was the first woman to receive teaching awards at both NYU and the Zucker School of Medicine as well as the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She has trained as a facilitator through the Academy on Communication in Health Care (where she received the Healthcare Communication Teaching Excellence Award in 2020, served as the Co-Director of the Faculty-in-Training program and is now the Senior Faculty Advisor for External Education). She completed the LEEP fellowship through the Academy of Professionalism in Health Care and was inducted into the American College of Physicians as a fellow in 2024. She lives in Connecticut, is married to an internist turned psychiatrist, and is the proud mother of a two amazing grown children (daughter and son), 3 cats, and a dog.