Caroline P Groth , PhD, BA

Program Director, MS in Biostatistics
Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Classification:

Faculty

• PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2017
• BA, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

Special Issue in Annals of Work Exposures and Health: Volume 66 Supplement 1 April 2022 Title of Special Issue: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Exposure Assessment of Response and Clean-up Workers.  Author/Co-author: 10 manuscripts (pages i3-187).

LeBouf, R.F, Blackley, B.H., Fortner, A.R., Stanton, M., Martin, S.B., Groth, C.P., McClelland, T.L., Duling, M.G., Burns, D.A., Ranpara, A., Edwards, N., Fedan, K., Bailey, R.L., Cummings, K.J., Nett, R.J., Cox-Ganser, J.M.,  Virji, M.A. (2020) Exposures and emissions in coffee roasting facilities and cafes: diacetyl, 2,3-pentanedione, and other volatile organic compounds Frontiers in Public Health, 8: 1-19   DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.561740;    Pub Med PMID: 33072698

Chen, D., Lawrence, K., Pratt, G.C., Stenzel, M.R., Stewart, P.A., Groth, C.P., Banerjee, S., Blair, A., Christenbury, K., Curry, M.D., Jackson, W.B., Kwok, R.K., Engel, L.S., Sandler, D.P. Fine particulate matter and lung function among burning-exposed Deepwater Horizon oil spill workers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 130 (2): 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8930; Pub Med PMID: 35103485

Kwok, R.K., Jackson II, B., Stewart, P.A., Engel, L.S., McGrath, J.A., Curry, M.D., Stenzel, M., Huynh, T.B., Groth, C.P., Ramachandran, G., Banerjee, S., Pratt, G.C., Blair, A., Miller, A.K., Zhang, X., Sandler, D.P. Association of Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and cleanup work with risk of developing hypertension. JAMA Network Open, 5(2):e220108. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0108; Pub Med PMID: 35195699

Garner, K.L., Bowdridge, E.C., Griffith, J.A., DeVallance, E., Searman, M.G., Engels, K.J., Groth, C.P., Goldsmith, W.T., Wix, K., Bachelor, T.P., Nurkiewicz, T.R. (2022) Maternal nonmaterial inhalation exposure: Critical gestational period in the uterine microcirculation is angiotensin II dependent. Cardiovascular Toxicology, 22(2): 167-180. DOI: 10.1007/s12012-021-09712-8; Pub Med PMID: 35066857

Groth, C., Banerjee, S., Ramachandran, G., Stenzel, M. Sandler, D., Blair, A., Engel, L., Kwok, R., and Stewart, P. (2017) Bivariate left-censored Bayesian model for predicting exposure: Preliminary analysis of worker exposure during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 61 (1), 76-86. PMID: 28395209

Stewart, P.A., Stenzel, M.R., Ramachandran, G., Banerjee, S., Huynh, T., Groth, C.P., Kwok., Blair, A., Engel, L.S., Sandler, D.P. (2018) Development of an total hydrocarbon ordinal job-exposure matrix for workers corresponding to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster: The GuLF STUDY. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 28 (3): 223-230. PMID: 29064482

April 2021: NIOSH Alice Hamilton Paper Award in Exposure and Risk Assessment Category

April 2021: West Virginia University’s School of Public Health 2020-2021 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award

April 2018: Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine Research Day Public Health and Social Sciences Poster Competition Finalist

April 2017: Delta Omega Induction, National Honorary Society of Public Health

April 2016: Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Exhibition Biomedical Sciences Poster Competition Grand Prize

April 2015, 2014: University of Minnesota SPH Research Day PhD Most Collaborative Research Project Award, PhD Best Poster Presentation 2nd Place

May 2013: University of Minnesota Division of Biostatistics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

August 2012: University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) Dean’s Scholar’s Award

May 2010: Psi Chi Induction, International Honorary Society of Psychology

Dr. 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.  Dr. Groth also completed a postdoctoral fellowship from 2017-2019 at the Department of Preventive Medicine in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

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.

Dr. Groth has statistical research interests in missing data, Bayesian statistics and measurement error. She is a highly collaborative researcher with interests in a variety of areas including environmental health, toxicology, nutrition, psychology and neuroscience.