2.__Membership.__The panel consists of health care and social service providers, public health officials, law enforcement officers and other persons with professional expertise on maternal and infant health and mortality.__The director shall appoint the members of the panel, who serve at the pleasure of the director.__The director shall appoint an employee of the center to serve as panel coordinator.

3.__Contact with authorized representatives.__The first contact pursuant to this section with a parent or parents or other authorized representative of a deceased person may not occur prior to 4 months after the death and must:

A.__Be by letter from the State Health Officer on letterhead of the center; and

B.__Include a separate invitation to participate in a review of the death of the deceased person from a statewide organization dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

4.__Duties and powers of panel coordinator.__The panel coordinator has the following duties and powers.

A.__The panel coordinator shall review the deaths of all women during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth and the majority of deaths of infants under 1 year of age, with selection of cases of infant death based on the need to review particular causes of death or obtaining a representative sample of all deaths.

B.__Prior to accessing medical records, the panel coordinator shall obtain permission in all cases for access to those records from the parent or parents or other authorized representative of the deceased person.

C.__Prior to conducting a voluntary interview, the panel coordinator shall obtain permission in all cases for the interview from the parent or parents or other authorized representative of the deceased person.

D. The panel coordinator may conduct voluntary interviews with the parent or parents of a deceased child or other