Michael Goodstein is a board-certified neonatologist from York, PA.  He did both a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Temple University/St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.  Dr. Goodstein has been an attending neonatologist for 30 years at York Hospital for the WellSpan Medical Group and he is the director of newborn services.  He is also a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine of The Pennsylvania State University.  He established the York County Cribs for Kids Program and has been its director since 2003.  He is a board member of the National Cribs for Kids® Program and has been conference chairman for their biennial national infant safe sleep conferences.  He has been a member of the Expert Leadership Group for the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep (2014-2017) and a safe sleep content advisor for the Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) (2015-2021).  He is currently Medical Director for the National Collaborative for Safe Infant Sleep (AAP-HRSA).  Dr. Goodstein has been a member of the AAP Task Force on SIDS since 2010.

Barbara M. Ostfeld, Ph.D. is a Professor, Department of Pediatrics, at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Program Director of the SIDS Center of New Jersey, which operates under a grant from the NJ Department of Health and which she helped establish in 1987 to serve the missions of bereavement support, research and public health education. A member of the Medical School’s Division of Neonatology for 37 years,  she had also served as program director of the High-Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic, and her NIH-funded research addressed outcomes of prematurity. Her public health projects have focused on reducing infant morbidity and mortality, recently through the development of SIDS Info, a free safe infant sleep app which has been recognized as an emerging practice by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. Her research on SIDS contributed to the safe sleep policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and she was named a Champion for Children by its NJ Chapter. Dr. Ostfeld served as a member of the Expert Leadership Group of the MCH National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep. Her activities on behalf of health equity include service on the NJ Perinatal Quality Collaborative Health Disparities Work Group. She is a graduate of New York University, received her master’s and Doctoral degrees in Developmental Psychology from Rutgers University, her postdoctoral training from Children’s Psychiatric Center and is a board-certified psychologist.  She credits her seven grandchildren with sustaining her commitment to infant wellbeing.