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Melinda Nelson
Branch Chief


Phone: 301-435-5278
Fax: 301-480-5450
Building: Democracy I, Room: 838
E-mail: nelsonm@mail.nih.gov 

Melinda Nelson is the Chief Grants Management Officer for the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Behavioral and Social Sciences from the University of Maryland. Ms. Nelson has served as Chief Grants Management Officer of NIAMS since 2000 and as the Deputy Grants Management Officer from 1999-2000. She served as a Grants Management Section Chief in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from 1990-1999, and a Grant Management Specialist since 1980. She currently serves as Chair of the NIH Grants Management Orientation Training Committee and is a member of the NIH Grants Management Professional Certification Board and the NIH Extramural Associates Board. In addition, she served as Chair of the NIH Grants Management Subcommittee on Training from 1995-2001.