The National Football League (NFL) has named Nicholas Theodore, MD, Donlin M. Long Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, the chairman of its NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee. The committee, made up of independent and NFL-affiliated physicians and scientists, studies brain and spinal trauma and helps the league with concussion policies and other health and safety issues.
“At the NFL, we are grateful for the medical and scientific experts who shape our health and safety initiatives, and I look forward to working with Dr. Theodore in his new leadership position,” Allen Sills, MD, NFL chief medical officer, said in a prepared statement. “His clinical expertise—in addition to his extensive experience in injury prevention—will further advance our commitment to player health and safety.”
“Dr. Theodore will be a dynamic leader of the Head, Neck and Spine Committee at a time when significant progress is being made in injury surveillance, athlete care and scientific research,” Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president of health and safety initiatives, said in the same statement. “He will build on the substantial work of the previous leaders and further advance the health and safety of our sport.”
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