ELLEN STOVER, Ph.D.

Director, Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research, and AIDS

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institutesof Health

Bethesda, Maryland

Ellen Stover, Ph.D. is currently the Director of the Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research, and AIDS (DMDBA), one of three major extramural research divisions of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The Division, created in 1997 after a major reorganization of NIMH, encompasses a broad research program that includes behavioral, developmental, and epidemiologic research on the causes of mental and behavioral disorders, on interventions to prevent their personal and social burden, and on the causes, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Prior to becoming a Division Director, Dr. Stover spearheaded the NIMH Office of AIDS, which she still heads. Substantively, the program developed into an internationally renowned resource for scientific knowledge development concerning the behavioral prevention and neuroscience of HIV/AIDS.