Nabel named new president of Brigham and Women's

Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, will become the next president of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston, the two medical centers are set to disclose this morning.

Nabel, 57, a cardiologist who graduated from Cornell University Medical College and trained at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, was appointed in a unanimous vote last night by the board of trustees that jointly oversees the two affiliated Boston teaching hospitals.

She will begin her new job on Jan. 1 when the hospitals' current president, Gary Gottlieb, becomes president and chief executive of Boston's Partners HealthCare, the parent organization of the Brigham and Women's, Faulkner, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Gottlieb replace James Mongan, who said in February that he would be retiring.

Nabel, a native of St. Paul, Minn., will be returning to Brigham and Women's, a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, where she completed her internship and residency in internal medicine and a clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine.

She later served on the faculty at the University of Michigan, where she become known for her research in vascular biology and molecular cardiology, before joining the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the NIH in 1999. In her current position, Nabel oversees a $3 billion budget.