Benjamin (Benji) Ungar

Ungar is a native New Yorker, and has lived in The Bronx in New York.[3][4] He was a child actor, with film credits in The Substance of Fire and Billy Budd.[5] His brother, Jonathan Ungar, also fenced at Harvard ('03).[6]

Ungar was the valedictorian of his class at Bronx High School of Science.[3] In high school, Ungar was a member of the National Honors Society and was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist.[6]

Ungar has fenced with the New York Athletic Club.[4] He was a member of US National Men's Epee Team at Cadet and Junior World Championships in 2002, 2003, and 2006.[6] He was a bronze medalist at the World Fencing Junior Championships.[6] Ungar was the first American to win a Junior Épée World Cup, winning the Junior Men's Épée World Cup in 2006.[7][8] He was also the Junior Men's Épée World Championships Bronze Medalist in 2006.[9][10]

Fencing for Harvard University as a sophomore, Ungar was the NCAA Men's Épée Champion in 2006. His win was listed as one of Harvard's 25 greatest athletic accomplishments.[11] Ungar became the third Harvard men's fencer to win an NCAA individual title, and was Academic All-Ivy League. He was Harvard University's Male Athlete of the Year 2006.[12] Ungar was also a two time All-American and two-time All-Ivy League honoree.[13]

Ungar was a Senior Men's Épée World Championships Silver Medalist in 2010.

Ungar is a 2017 graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and, as of summer of 2021, is a resident in dermatology.[14] In 2011, he accepted an award for Best Basic Science Paper by the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery.[15]

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