Camille Hoover

Ms. Camille Hoover is an active member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), and in 2017 was chosen to serve on detail as a Senior Advisor to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA), Health and Human Services (HHS).  During her four-month rotation, Ms. Hoover led several major programmatic improvement initiatives in support of SES Reform.  These initiatives led to the creation of innovative hiring, onboarding, rotation and development, and succession planning programs – each, of which, have helped to shape and advance the new HHS SES Talent Management Program.      

As the Executive Officer (EO) and Associate Director for Management for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ms. Hoover provides visionary leadership and serves as the principal advisor to the Institute Director and senior staff on all phases of management including administrative, financial and human capital management, computer technology, procurement, and ethics for an Institute with an annual budget of $1.9 billion and a workforce of approximately 1300.  Prior to joining NIDDK, Ms. Hoover served as the first EO for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) where she partnered with the Director to build the entire research enterprise of a newly established Center from concept development through implementation.  

Ms. Hoover began her career as a social worker at Johns Hopkins Hospital before joining NIH's Clinical Center as a social worker for the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH.  She then transitioned to an administrative career dedicated to building a bridge between administrators and scientists and in creating lasting partnerships and providing critical support to NIH scientists as they conduct and support biomedical research to improve the health of the American people.  

Ms. Hoover received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland.