Shoshana Ungerleider

Shoshana Ungerleider
Born (1980-04-20)April 20, 1980
Eugene, Oregon. United States.
Nationality American
Occupation Physician
Notable work End Game, Extremis.

Shoshana Ungerleider (born April 20, 1980 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American physician, philanthropist, and writer. She is a leading palliative care advocate as well as a practicing physician at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.[1] She is the founder of the non-profit End Well, an organization that focuses on quality end-of-life care.[2] She is on the teaching faculty at California Pacific Medical Center and is also the founder the Ungerleider Fund, focused on philanthropy for palliative care education.[3]

As a community activist, she organized the March For Our Lives rally in San Francisco in response the Parkland, Florida school shooting in February 2018.[4]

In film, Ungerleider was a major funder of Extremis, an oscar-nominated,[5] emmy-nominated[6] short documentary about end of life decision making in the intensive care unit by Academy director, Dan Krauss and shot entirely in Oakland at Highland Hospital.[7]

Early life and education

Ungerleider was born in Eugene, Oregon to Jewish American parents. She graduated from Sheldon High School in 1998. She is the granddaughter of Joy Ungerleider-Mayorson, author and Jewish philanthropist[8] and great granddaughter of D. Samuel Gottesman, the Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist.[9]

Ungerleider earned an undergraduate degree in general science with an emphasis in marine biology from the University of Oregon in 2003 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from Oregon Health and Science University in 2010 and completed internal medicine residency training at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California.

Philanthropy

Shoshana Ungerleider is the founder of the non-profit End Well, an organization that focuses on quality end-of-life care, as well as the END WELL Symposium; an annual event in San Francisco created to address end-of-life issues as a multidisciplinary community.[10]

Ungerleider is also the founder and current chair of the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund; a private fund focused on philanthropy for palliative care education.[3]

Awards

In 2018, Ungerleider was named 40 Under 40 by San Francisco Business Times. In 2018, she was named Woman of the Year by Women’s Healthcare Executives of Northern California.[11] She is listed in Huffington Post’s 99 "Limit Breaking Female Founders".[12]

She was named by Becker’s Hospital Review as a 2018 Rising star: 90 healthcare leaders under 40.[13]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016End GameExecutive Producer

References

  1. ↑ Truong, Kevin. "Will your life end well? An Oscar nominee and palliative care advocate on what's new in death". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Burch, Kelly (30 October 2017). "What Is Day Of The Dead, And What Can It Teach You About The Grief Process?". Prevention.com. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  3. 1 2 Tedeschi, Bob (4 January 2017). "An advocate for palliative care scores big with 'Extremis'". STAT.
  4. ↑ Tucker, Jill (22 March 2018). "No one was organizing an SF rally against gun violence — so 1 woman did it". SFChronicle.com. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Wilkinson, Alicia. "The Netflix short documentary Extremis looks at the hard questions of end-of-life care". Vox. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Stinson, Annakeara (6 September 2016). "'Extremis' Trailer: Netflix Documentary Examines Grim Realities of End-of-Life Care". IndieWire. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Staff. "Extremis screening – Stanford Arts". Stanford Arts. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  8. ↑ Pace, Eric. "Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, 74, Former Head of Jewish Museum". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  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. ↑ Wyatt, Karen. "End Well Symposium: When Design Meets the End of Life with Shoshana Ungerleider, MD". End-of-Life University. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  11. ↑ Staff. "Women Health Care Executives - 2018 Woman of the Year Recipient". whcesfbay.org. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Weiner, Yitzi (12 January 2018). "99 "Limit Breaking Female Founders" Share The Most Important Lessons Learned From Their Experiences". Medium. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  13. ↑ Staff. "Rising stars: 90 healthcare leaders under 40". Becker Hospital Review. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
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