Elizabeth G Nabel

Nabel has been president of the Brigham since 2010, and is a former director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College and trained at the Brigham. Nabel is paid well — $1.3 million in salary alone in 2013 — to run Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of the nation’s premier medical centers. She also finds time to hold three other paying positions, which is unusual for a Boston hospital president. The National Football League last year hired Nabel — a prominent national leader in cardiac medicine and research who holds six honorary doctorates — to serve as its lead medical consultant for an undisclosed amount of money. She also earns $175,000 annually plus stock to sit on the board of the Dublin-based technology company Medtronic, and a confidential fee as a director for a Cambridge biotechnology company.