Shoshana R. Ungerleider

Shoshana Ungerleider
MD
Ungerleider in 2019
OccupationsPhysician, journalist, film producer
Notable workHost, TED (conference) Health
End Game
Extremis
Robin's Wish

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 and producer of the TED Health[2] and Before We Go podcasts,[3] practices internal medicine, runs a non-profit that she founded, End Well,[4] and during the COVID-19 pandemic, contributed regularly as a medical expert on CNN,[5] MSNBC, CBS and Fox News.[6][7][8]

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,[9] and great granddaughter of D. Samuel Gottesman, a Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist[10]

Career

Ungerleider practiced internal medicine in San Francisco at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center[11] until becoming a primary care physician at Crossover Health[12] and is president of a non-profit organization she founded in 2017 called End Well[13] which aims to improve end-of-life care for all. She is an advocate for palliative care education and endowed a program[14] 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,[15] USA Today,[16] Scientific American, TIME, Vox, San Francisco Chronicle and Stat and has appeared regularly as a medical expert contributor on CNN,[17] 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,[18] by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. She was a major funder of Netflix's Extremis, an Academy Award-nominated,[19] Emmy-nominated[20] short documentary by director, Dan Krauss.[21] In 2020, Ungerleider executive produced Robin's Wish, a feature-length documentary about the final years of actor and comedian Robin Williams.[22]

In March 2018, she planned the San Francisco March for Our Lives rally[23] to protest gun violence in schools where thousands marched from Civic Center Plaza to the Embarcadero (San Francisco).[24]

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.[25] The organization began as End Well Symposium; which first convened in 2017 in San Francisco[26] 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,[27] country music singer Tim McGraw, comedian Tig Notaro,[28] Ricki Lake,[29] actor Yvette Nicole Brown, style icon Stacy London, Bravo (American TV channel) reality host Andy Cohen, therapist Esther Perel, Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. BJ Miller,[30] singer Melissa Etheridge and others have spoken.

Awards

In 2018, Ungerleider was named to San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 class.[31] In 2018, she was named Woman of the Year by Women Health Care Executives.[32] She was named to Becker's Hospital Review, 90 healthcare leaders under 40 in 2018.[33] In June 2020, Ungerleider was named a 2020 Changemaker by Hospice News, an aging and end of life industry publication.[34]

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 June 4, 2020.
  2. ^ "TED Relaunches TED Health Podcast with Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, Leading Voice in Healthcare". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  3. ^ "All New Podcast "Before We Go" Premiering October 8". www.podnews.net (Press release). Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  4. ^ "End Well Project". endwellproject.org. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  5. ^ "CNN's Michael Holmes interviews Dr. Shoshana ungerleider". Twitter.com. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  6. ^ "Can coronavirus be transmitted via mail delivery?". Fox News. April 12, 2020. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  7. ^ "Coronavirus pandemic special: Doctors answer viewers' questions". Fox News. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  8. ^ "Testing in order to re-open the economy". Fox News. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  9. ^ Pace, Eric (September 9, 1994). "Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, 74, Former Head of Jewish Museum". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Green, David B. (February 13, 2015). "This Day in Jewish History 1955: Four Dead Sea Scrolls Come Home to Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  11. ^ "Shoshana Ungerleider, MD". Sutter Health. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  12. ^ "The quest for long life: a distraction we can't afford". Modern Healthcare. April 27, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
  13. ^ 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 June 4, 2020.
  14. ^ "Give to the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund". Sutter Health. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  15. ^ Ungerleider (August 25, 2021). "Are You Unvaccinated? It's Time to Make an End-of-Life Plan". Newsweek.com. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  16. ^ Ungerleider. "Nurses get spit on, kicked, assaulted. Stop hurting us. We are here to help you". USAToday.com. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  17. ^ "Nearly half of US states are reporting a rise in new coronavirus cases". CNN.com. June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  18. ^ Gaitan, Daniel (July 8, 2019). "'End Game' Is The Documentary Film America Needs". LifeMattersMedia. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  19. ^ Wilkinson, Alicia (March 25, 2017). "The Netflix short documentary Extremis looks at the hard questions of end-of-life care". Vox. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  20. ^ Stinson, Annakeara (September 6, 2016). "Extremis Trailer: Netflix Documentary Examines Grim Realities of End-of-Life Care". IndieWire. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  21. ^ Staff. "Extremis screening Stanford Arts". Stanford Arts. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  22. ^ "IMDB Robin's Wish". IMDB.com. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  23. ^ Tucker (March 22, 2018). "No one was organizing an SF rally against gun violence — so 1 woman did it". SFchronicle.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  24. ^ "San Francisco March for our Lives protesters rip NRA, call for gun bans". Mercurynews.com. March 24, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  25. ^ Perry, Kevin (November 11, 2021). "'I've experienced states of consciousness beyond this life': The people turning to psychedelics on their deathbeds". The Independent. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  26. ^ Tedeschi, Bob (January 4, 2017). "'Death is hot right now': An advocate for palliative care scored big with 'Extremis'". STAT News. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  27. ^ "End Well Announces Take 10, a Life Changing Event to Be Hosted December 10, 2020". www.businesswire.com/ (Press release). December 10, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  28. ^ Dembosky, April (December 28, 2023). "Doctors are pushing Hollywood for more realistic depictions of death and dying". NPR. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  29. ^ Telling, Gillian (November 29, 2024). "Ricki Lake Says She Tried Ayahuasca Despite Formerly Being 'Scared of Drugs': 'It's Been Profound'". People. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  30. ^ Martin, Courtney (December 14, 2017). "Death Without Duality: Three Both/Ands at the End of Life". On Being. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
  31. ^ Staff. "Meet the San Francisco Business Times' 40 under 40 Class of 2018". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  32. ^ Staff. "Women Health Care Executives - 2018 Woman of the Year Recipient". whcesfbay.org. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  33. ^ "Rising stars: 90 healthcare leaders under 40". beckershospitalreview.com. July 26, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  34. ^ Parker. "Changemakers: End Well Founder Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D." hospicenews.com. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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