Troxel studied applied mathematics at
Yale University, graduating
cum laude in 1991. She completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1995. Her dissertation,
Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements Subject to Nonignorable Non-Monotone Missing Data, was supervised by David P. Harrington. After postdoctoral research from 1995 to 1997 at the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, she became an assistant professor of clinical public health at
Columbia University in 1997, changing her affiliation to Columbia's Department of Biostatistics in 2000. She moved to the
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, becoming a full professor there in 2011 before moving to her present position at New York University in 2016. Troxel now co-leads the Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS) as Director and MPI, overseeing the study's Statistics and Data Coordinating Center. ==Recognition==