Sounds like a make-work position to start with, like Michelle Obama's position at a Chicago hospital that was not filled at all after she and Barack went to Washington.
Have you actually ‘read’ the article, and looked at her background?
“Her educational background includes three post-doctorates in GIS spatial analysis, biostatistics, and epidemiology at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. She earned her Ph.D in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami in 2013 and earned her Master of Science, Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in 2009 with a concentration in Sports Psychology. She’s also been a visiting scientist at the Salk Institute focusing on bioinformatics and has been an invited visiting researcher at NASA Langley.”
They hired her away from the LA Lakers.
Doesn’t sound like a ‘make-work’ position to me.