Dr. Maliski received her PhD in Nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill after which she worked with Dr. Ruth McCorkle exploring nursing's impact on quality of life post-prostatectomy. From there, Dr. Maliski came to UCLA as a post-doctoral fellow quality of life with Dr. Linda Sarna and eventually working with Dr. Mark S. Litwin on multiple studies investigating quality of life and related issues among underserved men with prostate cancer and their partners.