Child Safety Expert Witness/Consultant

Debra Holtzman, J.D., M.A.
 
Debra Holtzman is an internationally acclaimed child safety and health expert and an award-winning author.  With nearly two decades of experience in the safety and health fields, she is a leading authority on issues involving children: negligent supervision, accident prevention and safety, and standard of care.  She is also a food safety expert and a certified child passenger safety technician. 
 
Debra Holtzman holds a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.A. in occupational health and safety from New York University and a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, where she graduated in the top ten percent of her class. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Florida.  
 
In addition to practicing law,  Debra has worked as a safety and health consultant  and has inspected numerous plants and factories  for hazardous working conditions. 
 
Debra Holtzman is currently the Honorary Co-Chair of the Florida Safe Kids Coalition and teaches infant and toddler safety classes at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida.  She is a contributing safety and health writer for Ediets.com and a parenting columnist for Today's Parent.
 
Her books, The Panic-Proof Parent (McGraw-Hill, 2000) and The Safe Baby (Sentient Publications, 2005 and 2nd edition, 2009) have received rave reviews and endorsements from leading parenting authorities and safety and health organizations. The Safe Baby won the National Parenting Publication Gold Award, one of the country's most authoritative consumer-awards recognizing the best in children's and parenting resources. Debra was also the child safety consultant for the nationally distributed video program Safety Starts at Home: The Essential Childproofing Guide (InJoy Videos).
 
 Debra has appeared on major TV news shows and radio shows around the world. She has been featured as a safety expert on NBC's Today Show, Weekend Today, ABC News, Dateline NBC, CNBC Asia Market Watch, MSNBC, Associated Press Radio, NPR, Bloomberg News, Martha Stewart Living Radio, "You, The Owner's Manual" hosted by Dr. Michael Roizen (who is regularly featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show), and  Washington Post Radio, and in Parents Magazine, People, Newsweek,  Parenting, Child, Family Circle,  Reader's Digest, This Old House, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, America Online (AOL) Homepage, UPI, Washington Times, Toronto Star, Washington Post,  USA Weekend Magazine and ABC News.  She also appeared weekly on the Discovery Health Channel's  TV series, Make Room for Baby.