Ms. Maltby is a consultant in Medical Ethics. Previously she was Project Coordinator in the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill-Cornell Medical College, focusing on projects to improve end-of-life care. She served on the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital: Cornell, and currently is on the ethics committees of Sharon Hospital and VNA Northwest. In 1998 she co-founded The Good Death Initiative, a national, educational outreach initiative to improve care of the dying. She has been a Senior Fellow at The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center. Previously, Ms. Maltby spent 20 years in the movie business. Her credits include: Ordinary People, A River Runs Through it, King of the Hill and The American President. She received an MA in Medical Ethics from Loyola University of Chicago and a BA from Smith College. She has been a resident of Lakeville for 34 years.