In 1992, Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights where he worked on forensic missions to examine mass gravesites for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia.

[2][3] While at PHR, Stover performed research on the sociomedical consequences of land mines in war-torn countries such as Cambodia.

His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which, along with the organization's director, Jody Williams, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

In February, 2015, the Human Rights Center was awarded a grant from the MacArthur foundation's program for Creative and Effective Institutions.

[5] Photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Parade, Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, Science, New Scientist, TV Guide, Visao, The Scientist, Technology Review, and several reports and books, including in Gerald Posner and John Ware, Mengele: A Complete Story (New York: McGraw Hill, 1985)