In its efforts to improve player safety, the National Football League has recruited a prominent physician, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, as its first chief health advisor. Nabel, a cardiologist, is the president of the prestigious, Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She is also a professor of medicine at Harvard. In her new advisory role at the NFL, which is expected to consume about one day a month of her time, she will have broad oversight over internal and external medical staff, a league spokesperson said in an emailed response to questions. That oversight includes potentially changing what the NFL spends its research dollars on, which totaled more than $30 million last year.
