New Biostatistics faculty member to join department

The SPH Department of Biostatistics is pleased to announce that Caroline Groth, Ph.D., has accepted our offer for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Dr. Groth joins WVU from the Department of Preventive Medicine in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is completing a postdoctoral fellowship. Groth earned her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2017 and her B.A. in Psychology (Statistics Concentration) from St. Olaf College in 2012.

Since 2012, Dr. Groth has been active with the airborne chemical exposure assessment team in the GuLF STUDY, a long-term effort to investigate the health of workers and volunteers who responded to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The study is sponsored by National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is leading this research with the support of community groups. Dr. Groth’s work has been published in Spatial Statistics, Annals of Work Exposures and Health, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, and Environmetrics.

While earning her doctoral degree, Dr. Groth was awarded several awards from Minnesota’s School of Public Health, including an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and a Ph.D. Most Collaborative Research Project Award. In addition, while at the University of Minnesota, she was inducted into Delta Omega (Pi Chapter) as a student in 2017.

Dr. Groth will begin working at WVU on September 1, 2019, but will be visiting Morgantown and the HSC campus next week. Many thanks to Assistant Professor Casey Jelsema who led the search committee.