Shoshana R. Ungerleider
Shoshana Ungerleider MD | |
|---|---|
 Ungerleider in 2019 | |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, journalist, film producer |
| Notable work | Host, TED (conference) Health End Game Extremis Robin's Wish |
| Spouse | Edward Aten |
Shoshana Rebecca Ungerleider is an American medical doctor, journalist and film producer. She was educated at
Early life
Ungerleider was born in
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
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
Awards
In 2018, Ungerleider was named to
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
- ^ "Women Who Inspire Us: Shoshana Ungerleider". ohsu.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "TED Relaunches TED Health Podcast with Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, Leading Voice in Healthcare". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "End Well Project". endwellproject.org. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "CNN's Michael Holmes interviews Dr. Shoshana ungerleider". Twitter.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ "Can coronavirus be transmitted via mail delivery?". Fox News. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Coronavirus pandemic special: Doctors answer viewers' questions". Fox News. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Testing in order to re-open the economy". Fox News. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ Pace, Eric (9 September 1994). "Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, 74, Former Head of Jewish Museum". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Shoshana Ungerleider, MD". Sutter Health. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- S2CID 195658986. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Give to the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund". Sutter Health. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Ungerleider (25 August 2021). "Are You Unvaccinated? It's Time to Make an End-of-Life Plan". Newsweek.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Ungerleider. "Nurses get spit on, kicked, assaulted. Stop hurting us. We are here to help you". USAToday.com. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Nearly half of US states are reporting a rise in new coronavirus cases". CNN.com. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ Gaitan, Daniel. "'End Game' Is The Documentary Film America Needs". LifeMattersMedia. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Stinson, Annakeara (6 September 2016). "Extremis Trailer: Netflix Documentary Examines Grim Realities of End-of-Life Care". IndieWire. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Staff. "Extremis screening Stanford Arts". Stanford Arts. Retrieved 3 Feb 2020.
- ^ "IMDB Robin's Wish". IMDB.com. Retrieved 11 Aug 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "San Francisco March for our Lives protesters rip NRA, call for gun bans". Mercurynews.com. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Martin, Courtney (14 December 2017). "Death Without Duality: Three Both/Ands at the End of Life". On Being. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ Staff. "Meet the San Francisco Business Times' 40 under 40 Class of 2018". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Staff. "Women Health Care Executives - 2018 Woman of the Year Recipient". whcesfbay.org. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Rising stars: 90 healthcare leaders under 40". beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Parker. "Changemakers: End Well Founder Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D." hospicenews.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020.