Received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University in 2002. Prior to joining The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, she was a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Pedroza has worked on assessing outcomes after traumatic brain injury and on the evaluation of preschool data. Her research interests include multilevel models and Bayesian models. Dr. Pedroza participates in the ETROP study.