David E. Vance, PhD, MGS, FAAN, is a University Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. Dr. Vance is a psychologist actively pursuing research in positive and negative neuroplasticity, neurocognitive aging, neurocognitive remediation, aging with HIV, and more recently neurocognition in cancer survivors. With a passion for successful cognitive aging and for mentoring scientific leaders, Dr. Vance’s work has resulted in +410 publications. He has disseminated his research prolifically in +460 national and international presentations across +25 countries/territories. In 2011, he received a White House invitation to attend the first forum on aging with HIV and has participated as an invited member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Think Tank – Working Group on HIV and Aging sponsored by the Office of AIDS Research to develop the national research agenda, published in the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes. He participates on many editorial boards and is the founding editor of Nursing: Research and Reviews. He has been awarded several research grants. On top of this, he is a proud long-term survivor of HIV and advocate, sharing his experiences to those who will listen.