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Women Health Care Executives (WHCE), in the San Francisco Bay Area, is composed of professional women, from all health care fields, who come together to learn, support, inspire and encourage one another throughout their career.
WHCE provides a variety of educational, inspiring, and creative events and workshops to support women to drive innovation in the healthcare industry. From speaker panels to networking events, to our annual Woman of the Year Gala where a dedicated and inspiring woman of the community is honored for her contribution to healthcare.
Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D., is a physician, philanthropist, filmmaker, writer and activist. She founded the End Well Symposium and the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund and is on the teaching faculty at Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center as well as serves on the Foundation board of trustees.
As a writer and speaker, Shoshana has been featured in such places as Vox and STAT, and presented at Exponential Medicine 2017. As a producer, Shoshana’s forthcoming short documentary, End Game, by Academy Award winning directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein was acquired by Netflix and premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Recognized as one of SF Business Times 40 Under 40, Shoshana also funded Extremis, an Oscar and Emmy Award nominated short documentary about end of life decision making in the ICU in 2016.
Shoshana founded The End Well Project, the first interdisciplinary symposium on design and innovation for the end of life experience, and the Ungerleider Palliative Care Education Fund to support innovative programs that further palliative care education. She co-sponsored the OpenIDEO design challenge to re-imagine end of life, is on the Board of Zen Hospice Project and is a host of health and medicine programs at The Commonwealth Club of California. In her free time, Shoshana and her husband empower people to come together such as in the March For Our Lives event in SF.
Member Spotlight
WHCE is proud to highlight new member Leila Shams, as the lastest member spotlight. Leila is a managerial Consultant in quality and operations support for The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. Leila is passionate about making a difference in healthcare and impacting people and processes, while using her skills as a strategic thinker and planner, problem solver and relationship builder. When asked how being a member of WHCE has benefited Leila, her response was “The future of healthcare looks very positive in the Bay Area when I am surrounded by such amazing women with similar goals.”
