Dr. Trocki received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and also spent a year on an NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the graduate school of public health at UC Berkeley. Dr. Trocki has been the principal investigator on numerous grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the state of California and various foundations. Articles and book chapters based on this research have been published in peer-reviewed contexts. She also serves on various Institutional Review Boards (human subjects) and has been a grant peer reviewer for NIH over the last ten years.