Marta Kolthoff, FACMG, is working in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine as a reproductive geneticist at West Penn Hospital (Allegheny Health Network). She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell and her MD from SUNY at Buffalo - School of Medicine. She successfully defended her thesis entitled Caring Intensely for Trisomy 18 Newborns, but Limiting "Intensive Management" - An Ethical Justification for Palliative Care and received her MA in Bioethics in 2014.