Dr. Kroll received her B.S. in Physical Therapy from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in 1975 and her MA (1982) and PhD (1988) degrees in Physical Therapy from New York University.   From 1975 to 1991 Dr. Kroll lived and worked in New York City.  As a 1^st Lieutenant, she served several years in the United States Public Health Service, then after leaving the service, held staff and supervisory positions in a number of orthopedic settings including the position of Director of Rehabilitation at Hospital for Joint Disease. During that time period, she was also an adjunct and/or full time faculty member at New York University, Long Island University, Ithaca College-Bronx Campus, and Hunter College. In 1991 she took a full time faculty position at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, and in 2003 she assumed Department Chair of the Physical Therapy Department Chair at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

As an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) member since 1974, Dr. Kroll has served in various leadership positions in state and national American Physical Therapy Associations.  Her research interests have been in measurement methods in physical therapy. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary education and training which is evidenced by her participation in various venues devoted to interdisciplinary curriculum design and content development. 

Dr. Kroll joined the faculty at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in June of 2007.  Throughout her career, her clinical focus has been inpatient and outpatient orthopedics, and though she has taught in a number of subject areas, her teaching focus has been primarily in the movement sciences, specifically kinesiology and biomechanics.