Co-Director
Institute for Integrated Life Skills
Ross Ungerleider MD, MBA received his training at Duke University Medical Center where he remained on the faculty for 15 years, rising to the level of tenured professor in 1996. After almost 25 years at Duke, he took leadership roles at Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, OR), Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH), Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston Salem, NC) and Driscoll Children’s Hospital (Corpus Christi, TX) helping to build children’s heart programs and teach leadership and teamwork at each organization. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters as well as an editor of two major textbooks on cardiac surgery. He has been named to America’s Best Doctors, Cambridge’s Who’s Who, Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors (receiving their distinction as being among the top 1% nationally in his field), and by Good Housekeeping as one of the best pediatric cardiac surgeons in the U.S. In 2000, he was the recipient of the James Carreras International Humanitarian Award for his work performing heart surgery on children in Nicaragua. He was elected by his colleagues to represent them as President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association in 2006. His innovations and contributions to his profession have been highlighted on national television shows (CNN, 700 Club, Learning Channel) and he has been invited to give commencement addresses at both the high school and university level. He received his MBA in 2006 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where his peers elected him as their Physician Leader of the Year. He has had extensive training in leadership development, conflict resolution, negotiation skills and change management and in April 2016 completed his certification as a professional coach. He currently co-directs the Institute for Integrated Life Skills, LLC (integratedlifeskills.com) devoted to coaching and teaching lifeskills for healthcare providers.
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Saturday, January 29, 2022
4:02 PM – 4:10 PM ET