Diana Starace

In her position as the Coordinator for both the Injury Prevention Program & Safe Kids Middlesex County Coalition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s Level 1 Trauma Center in New Brunswick, NJ, Diana Starace and her team of volunteers and community partners work hard to educate the public about injury risks and related prevention strategies. In her words, “I see my job as an opportunity to teach folks how to stay out of the emergency department and Trauma Bay. Keeping the community safe is what we do.”

Diana is a certified by the Nat’l Highway Traffic Safety Administration as a Child Passenger Safety Instructor (CPST-I) and is a member of the NHTSA Region 2 CPS Committee. She serves as the Executive Board chair of the Middlesex County Coalition for Healthy Communities and is a member of the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking Healthcare Committee and is the Training Coordinator for the Speakers Bureau.  Diana is active on the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, along with Underage Drinking and Prescription Drug Task Forces within Middlesex County. She is called upon to lecture on numerous prevention topics in schools, organizations and corporate settings throughout Central New Jersey.

Diana has presented at a variety of state and national conferences including the NJ State School Nurse Association, NJ Planned Parenthood Teen Conference, NJ Association of  Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, NJ State Council on Compulsive Gambling, NHTSA Region 2 CPS Technical Conference,  and Trauma Center Association of America, Lifesavers and Safe Kids Worldwide Leadership Conferences.

Diana is an honors graduate of Barry College, Miami Shores, Florida, with post graduate studies in Public Health Administration at Florida International University and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is very proud of her daughter, grandkids, and husband, especially because they too, share safety messages wherever they go.