Meet Our Child Safety and Injury Prevention Specialists

Injury Prevention Team

Angela Campos

Angela Campos is a senior learning and development specialist with the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center. Angela is a child passenger safety technician instructor and specializes in safe transport of children with special healthcare needs. She also has previous experience working in poison control, private duty nursing, and Bone Marrow Transplant. Angela received her Bachelor of Science in nursing and Master of Science in nursing (clinical nurse leader) from Xavier University. She enjoys applying her love and knowledge of injury prevention both professionally and at home with her husband and kids.

Maddie Carpenter

Maddie Carpenter is an administrative assistant for the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center and the Buckle Up for Life national program. Additionally, she is also a certified child passenger safety technician (CPST). Maddie has a lot of experience working in the nonprofit world through AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corp, and with Cincinnati’s local foodbank, the Freestore Foodbank. With Maddie’s previous work in the nonprofit sector, her passion for helping others, and her bachelor’s degree in health care administration, this led her to start working in injury prevention. Outside of work, Maddie enjoys a good hike, along with a road trip or two.

Emma Costello

Emma Costello is a senior program management specialist, co-leading the Buckle Up for Life national program, created by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and funded by Toyota. She is also a child passenger safety technician (CPST) and a certified health education specialist (CHES). Emma’s desire to preventing health issues led her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Xavier University and a master’s degree in public health. Personally, Emma’s enjoys spending her time volunteering at Saturday Hoops, a program that provides a positive environment for both children and volunteers to experience basketball, reading, arts and crafts, and a nice meal together.

Gloria DelCastillo

Gloria Del Castillo is a child passenger safety expert at Cincinnati Children’s and senior specialist of community engagement for Buckle Up for Life. With Toyota, she helped create the program in 2004 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Gloria’s expertise as a child educator, trauma specialist, program developer, published author, Hispanic advocate and vigilant mother has been widely featured in the national media, including by USA Today, Huffington Post and Univision. She is also a featured expert on The Bump.

Patrick Edmunds

Patrick Edmunds is the program manager for Buckle Up for Life—a national child passenger safety program, created by Cincinnati Children’s and Toyota, to help keep families safe. Patrick holds a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in nonprofit management, and he is a nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST). Over nearly 20 years, he has designed and led community programs that aim to promote youth development, community building, and positive public health outcomes for all. Patrick has been a part of the Cincinnati Children’s team since 2013 and has managed grantee and partner relationships in all 50 states and several countries outside of the US. Patrick currently lives in Loveland, Ohio with his wife, and three young children. Patrick actively volunteers for numerous causes and serves on various nonprofit boards.

Stephanie Lyons

Stephanie Lyons is the program manager of the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center. Stephanie is a child passenger safety technician instructor and specializes in safe transport of children with special healthcare needs. Stephanie is the occupant protection regional coordinator for the Ohio Buckles Buckeyes (OBB) program. The OBB program provides free car seats and booster seats to income eligible families in each county of Ohio. Stephanie is also the program coordinator for Injury Free Coalition for Kids which provides research, education, and advocacy for injury prevention topics.

Tyler Mastin

Tyler Mastin is a learning and development specialist with the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center. Tyler’s experience working with families involved with child protective services, and witnessing the impact of their physical environment, influenced him to make a career shift towards injury prevention. Tyler is a child passenger safety technician (CPST) and is involved in the home safety program, meeting families in the community to address their home safety concerns and providing education. Tyler enjoys spending his leisure time with family, hiking, and attempting new cooking recipes.

Amy Mueller

Amy Mueller is a learning and development specialist in the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center and the contact for the local Buckle Up for Life Program. Amy is a child passenger safety technician and enjoys serving families in the community with child passenger safety and home safety needs. She enjoys applying her previous personal and professional experience working in the NICU by educating families on safe sleep practices for babies under 1 year old. Personally, she spends her days with her husband, children and dogs having fun and practicing her woodworking craft.

Michelle Price

Michelle Price is a senior specialist with the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center (CCIC). Michelle’s professional background as a physical therapist assistant inspired her to change her career from rehabilitating injuries to preventing them. She is a certified child passenger safety technician instructor and has completed advanced training in special needs car seats. She has also worked on pedestrian safety initiatives and has led injury prevention research projects. Michelle has a special interest global health which moved her to establish a research partnership between the CCIC and the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Michelle completed her Master of Public Health in epidemiology from Harvard University and she is also a University of Cincinnati alumnus. Michelle is an animal lover, an avid world traveler, and she enjoys experiencing nature through hiking or horseback riding in her spare time.

Tyra Scherer

Tyra Scherer is a learning and development specialist with the Comprehensive Children’s Injury Center. Tyra is a child passenger safety technician (CPST) and works primarily on the inpatient team fitting patients in car seats and educating caregivers on proper use. She is also the coordinator for Safe Kids Greater Cincinnati, a coalition made up of individuals and organizations from the private, public, and non-profit sectors of Greater Cincinnati all aligned in the mission to protect children on the road, at home and at play. She enjoys applying her love and knowledge of injury prevention both professionally and at home with her husband and three kids.