In this episode of the Liberation Lab podcast, our team sits down with Shoshana Ungerleider, MD to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting and changing end-of-life decisions, patient and care team dynamics, palliative care choices, and grief and mourning. Dr. Ungerleider is an internal medicine physician focused largely on improving the end-of-life experience for patients and their families, as well as increasing access to communications skills training for clinicians. She is the founder of End Well, a multidisciplinary community that unites design, technology, health policy, and activist initiatives to create a cultural shift in how we think about end of life.
Want to read more? Check out Dr. Underleider’s blog posts on end-of-life care in a COVID-19 environment, and why we should give ourselves permission to grieve.
About The Author: Shoshana Ungerleider, MD
Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is a physician, founder, philanthropist and speaker. She works as an internist at California Pacific Medical Center and Crossover Health in San Francisco. She founded End Well, a first of its kind media platform and annual symposium on human-centered design and innovation to improve the end of life experience. She funded Extremis, a short documentary about end of life decision making in the intensive care unit by Academy Award-nominated director, Dan Krauss. The film was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award and nominated for 2 Emmy Awards. She executive produced End Game, a short documentary on hospice and palliative care by Academy Award winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, which was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award.
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