In his state of the NFL address before Super Bowl XLIX, Roger Goodell announced that the league would be creating a new position, a chief health and medical advisor, to oversee the league’s health policies. The woman tabbed for the role is Betsy Nabel, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is not a full-time NFL employee, but rather a part-time advisor who spends one workday a month devoted to her post with the league. With the health and safety of the game taking center stage, she has the ear of Goodell on perhaps the most important issue the NFL faces.
NFL Safety is in Her Hands
