Shoshana Ungerleider

MD
Ungerleider in 2019
Occupation(s)Physician, journalist, film producer
Notable workHost, TED (conference) Health
End Game
Extremis
Robin's Wish
SpouseEdward Aten

Shoshana Rebecca Ungerleider is an American medical doctor, journalist and film producer. She was educated at The University of Oregon and Oregon Health and Science University.[1] As of June 2021, Ungerleider is the host of the TED Health Podcast,[2] practices internal medicine, runs a non-profit that she founded, End Well,[3] and during the COVID-19 pandemic, contributed regularly as a medical expert on CNN,[4] MSNBC, CBS and Fox News.[5][6][7]

Early life

Ungerleider was born in Eugene, Oregon, to Jewish American parents. She is the daughter of American documentary film producer, author and sports psychologist Steven Ungerleider, and Sharon Margolin Ungerleider and granddaughter of Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, author and Jewish philanthropist,[8] and great granddaughter of D. Samuel Gottesman, a Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist[9]

Career

Ungerleider practices internal medicine in San Francisco at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center[10] and is president of a non-profit organization she founded in 2017 called End Well[11] which aims to improve end-of-life care for all. She is an advocate for palliative care education and endowed a program[12] at California Pacific Medical Center to teach medical residents.

As a journalist, she has published articles about end of life and other medical topics in popular media including Newsweek,[13] USA Today,[14] Scientific American, TIME, Vox, San Francisco Chronicle and Stat and has appeared regularly as a medical expert contributor on CNN,[15] MSNBC and Fox News as well as PBS NewsHour and CBSN.

In film, Ungerleider executive produced Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game,[16] by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. She was a major funder of Netflix's Extremis, an Academy Award-nominated,[17] Emmy-nominated[18] short documentary by director, Dan Krauss.[19] In 2020, Ungerleider executive produced Robin's Wish, a feature-length documentary about the final years of actor and comedian Robin Williams.[20]

In March 2018, she planned the San Francisco March for Our Lives rally[21] to protest gun violence in schools where thousands marched from Civic Center Plaza to the Embarcadero (San Francisco).[22]

End Well

Ungerleider founded endwellproject.org in 2017, a non-profit organization focused on education and awareness to improve the end of life experience where she remains President of the Board of Directors.[23] The organization began as End Well Symposium; which first convened in 2017 in San Francisco[24] and has also become an educational media platform. Its perspective ranges from culture, healthcare, design, business, technology to policy where notable individuals such as actress Taraji P. Henson,[25] country music singer Tim McGraw, Bravo (American TV channel) reality host Andy Cohen, Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. BJ Miller,[26] singer Melissa Etheridge and others have spoken.

Awards

In 2018, Ungerleider was named to San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 class.[27] In 2018, she was named Woman of the Year by Women Health Care Executives.[28] She was named to Becker's Hospital Review, 90 healthcare leaders under 40 in 2018.[29] In June 2020, Ungerleider was named a 2020 Changemaker by Hospice News, an aging and end of life industry publication.[30]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Robin's Wish Executive producer
2018 End Game Executive producer Academy Award-nominated
2016 Extremis Major funder Academy Award, Emmy-nominated

References

  1. ^ "Women Who Inspire Us: Shoshana Ungerleider". ohsu.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. ^ "TED Relaunches TED Health Podcast with Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, Leading Voice in Healthcare". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ "End Well Project". endwellproject.org. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. ^ "CNN's Michael Holmes interviews Dr. Shoshana ungerleider". Twitter.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Can coronavirus be transmitted via mail delivery?". Fox News. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Coronavirus pandemic special: Doctors answer viewers' questions". Fox News. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Testing in order to re-open the economy". Fox News. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  8. ^ Pace, Eric (9 September 1994). "Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, 74, Former Head of Jewish Museum". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  9. ^ Green, David B. (13 February 2015). "This Day in Jewish History 1955: Four Dead Sea Scrolls Come Home to Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Shoshana Ungerleider, MD". Sutter Health. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  11. ^ Voelker, Rebecca (2019). "Building a Better Death, One Conversation at a Time". JAMA. 322 (3): 195–197. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.6885. PMID 31241718. S2CID 195658986. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Give to the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund". Sutter Health. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  13. ^ Ungerleider (25 August 2021). "Are You Unvaccinated? It's Time to Make an End-of-Life Plan". Newsweek.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  14. ^ Ungerleider. "Nurses get spit on, kicked, assaulted. Stop hurting us. We are here to help you". USAToday.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Nearly half of US states are reporting a rise in new coronavirus cases". CNN.com. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  16. ^ Gaitan, Daniel. "'End Game' Is The Documentary Film America Needs". LifeMattersMedia. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  17. ^ Wilkinson, Alicia (25 March 2017). "The Netflix short documentary Extremis looks at the hard questions of end-of-life care". Vox. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  18. ^ Stinson, Annakeara (6 September 2016). "Extremis Trailer: Netflix Documentary Examines Grim Realities of End-of-Life Care". IndieWire. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  19. ^ Staff. "Extremis screening Stanford Arts". Stanford Arts. Retrieved 3 Feb 2020.
  20. ^ "IMDB Robin's Wish". IMDB.com. Retrieved 11 Aug 2020.
  21. ^ Tucker (22 March 2018). "No one was organizing an SF rally against gun violence — so 1 woman did it". SFchronicle.com. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  22. ^ "San Francisco March for our Lives protesters rip NRA, call for gun bans". Mercurynews.com. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  23. ^ Perry, Kevin (11 November 2021). "'I've experienced states of consciousness beyond this life': The people turning to psychedelics on their deathbeds". The Independent. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  24. ^ Tedeschi, Bob (4 January 2017). "'Death is hot right now': An advocate for palliative care scored big with 'Extremis'". STAT News. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  25. ^ "End Well Announces Take 10, a Life Changing Event to Be Hosted December 10, 2020". www.businesswire.com/ (Press release). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  26. ^ Martin, Courtney (14 December 2017). "Death Without Duality: Three Both/Ands at the End of Life". On Being. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  27. ^ Staff. "Meet the San Francisco Business Times' 40 under 40 Class of 2018". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  28. ^ Staff. "Women Health Care Executives - 2018 Woman of the Year Recipient". whcesfbay.org. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  29. ^ "Rising stars: 90 healthcare leaders under 40". beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  30. ^ Parker. "Changemakers: End Well Founder Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D." hospicenews.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020.

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