Dr. Groos earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a pediatrics residency at University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison, WI. She is a board-certified pediatrician with 16 years of experience.  She founded the Healthy Kids Program at Blank Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Groos practices general pediatrics at Primary Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center,  in Des Moines, Iowa.   She is active in community and legislative advocacy and health eating and active living promotion with many partners within the state. Dr. Groos currently serves as Lead Faculty for the National Childhood Obesity in Primary Care (COPC) Quality Improvement project led by the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute on Healthy Childhood Weight (IHCW). Dr. Groos leads the 5-2-1-0 Health Care Program in Iowa.  She serves as the co-chair for the COACH network (childhood obesity advisor) for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Obesity.  She is a past-president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, chair of the chapter committee on legislation, and founder and chair of the chapter committee on obesity.  She received the 2018 Iowa Medical Society Physician Community Service Award for her statewide child health promotion work.