In a LinkedIn post published Sunday, Falvella reflected on her career at NIH and outlined her priorities for the role going forward. Sean Mooney, director of the NIH Center for Information Technology, congratulated Falvella on her appointment in a LinkedIn post. Mooney credited Falvella with several data security milestones, including safeguarding the RECOVER Program and BioData Catalyst datasets and leading the Secure Controlled-Access Data Repositories Task Force. Who Is Maureen Falvella? She most recently served as chief information security officer at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, or NHLBI.