Dr. Marta Minnerop Skulina

Dr. Marta Minnerop Skulina, 63, passed peacefully at ValleyCare Hospital in Pleasanton, CA on April 8, 2023, surrounded by family and friends, after a valiant 15-month battle with cancer. Marta is survived by her husband, Ken Skulina, her children, Sam and Sophie Queler, her mother, Anne Schuman, and step-father, Ian, her father, Henry Minnerop, and step-mother, Kathy. She is also survived by siblings Ari and Theresa Shapira, Dmitri Shapira, Max and Danielle Minnerop, and Lizzie Minnerop, as well as nieces and nephews Amalia Shapira, and Henry and Greta Minnerop. She was a loving sister and aunt to the late Johanna Minnerop and Mathew Shapira. Marta, a native New Yorker, attended Bronx High School of Science before graduating with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. She graduated from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in 1990. She completed Internal Medicine and Radiology residencies at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and a Diagnostic Radiology Fellowship at UC Davis, all while raising her two young children with former husband, Andy. Marta practiced Radiology in Louisiana, Michigan, and New York before settling in California in 2010 to work for Sutter Health. Ken and Marta married in 2020 and cherished their time together with long walks in Del Valle Regional Park to watch the sunsets with their poodle, Axel. Marta loved practicing Radiology. She had an incisive eye and a love for detective stories, all of which she applied to her skillful reads of Radiology film. She loved Italian cooking, traveling, and playing classical violin. Marta was a woman of formidable strength. Her family and friends will remember her for her bold spirit, laughter, and wry sense of humor. She will be dearly missed by all. A funeral mass for Marta will be held on Saturday, May 13 th at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Walnut Creek, CA at 10:30 am. All faiths are welcome, and the mass will be livestreamed. A reception will follow. A separate celebration of Marta's life will be held in New York City over her birthday weekend, June 3-4. Please contact her family at Marta40823@gmail.com for details on how to attend. In lieu of flowers, please donate to an organization that supports medical research or education or to St. John Vianney Catholic Church. In loving memory of Marta.