Shoshana Ungerleider, MD
Reboot Board Member
Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and advocate for genetic testing. She is the host and producer of TED Health and the NY Radio Award–winning podcast Before We Go. She is the founder and president of End Well Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to making end-of-life a part of life.
A San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 honoree, Shoshana is also a science journalist and a leading voice in healthcare. She regularly appears as a medical expert on CNN, MSNBC, and CBS News, with bylines in TIME, USA Today, Newsweek, Slate, Scientific American, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vox, The Hill, and more. She executive-produced Netflix’s Oscar-nominated film End Game and funded Extremis. Her most recent film, Robin’s Wish, is a documentary about the final years of actor and comedian Robin Williams.
Shoshana serves as secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Sutter Health CPMC Foundation and sits on the advisory boards of the Providence Health Institute for Human Caring and JScreen.
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Before We Go
Reboot Network member, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is a practicing internist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her narrative podcast, Before We Go, a heartfelt (and often hilarious) journey through life’s greatest challenges—love, loss, family, and the reality of facing mortality is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. In our blog, she shares how the Jewish view of death and the rituals of generations provide a framework for this journey and helped her grieve. And, she says, the concept of tikkun olam—repairing the world—extends to how we approach death as well, recognizing that part of repairing the world is accepting that death, too, is part of its fabric. Read more.