The XFL has appointed brain injury expert Dr. Julian Bailes to lead a new medical advisory committee that will have “strong input” into the startup league’s on-field rules and safety procedures, Commissioner Oliver Luck said.

Bailes will lead a three-person committee, which also includes orthopedist Dr. Larry Lemak and Dr. Claudia Reardon, a mental health expert from the University of Wisconsin.

Separately, the league also has hired Milwaukee Brewers head trainer Daniel Wright as vice president of health and safety. Wright, who had been with the Brewers since 2001, will help implement the committee’s recommendations. He also will hire and supervise team training staffs, which will be accountable to the league, not teams.

The health committee will be expected to work several hours weekly, Luck said. Their remit is to establish medical and safety protocols for the league and teams, from finding creative new rules to minimize risk during special teams play to standardizing injury response and prevention on sidelines and in locker rooms.

“They’re all busy with their practices, but they will be working a number of hours every week to get the policies, protocols and procedures in place,” Luck said. “This is more than the name ‘advisory’ will lead one to believe.”

Bailes, who has served as chairman of the Pop Warner Football Medical Advisory Committee and is a member of the NFL’s head, neck and spine committee, said he took the position because it offered a rare chance to consider football safety with a blank slate.

“Working with Oliver and the new league, the ability to reimagine the game, I have been interested in that for a long time, not only from the concussion point of view but a youth point of view,” Bailes said.