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Senator Bill Frist, MD Lecture: Health Care as a Means for Peace

Vanderbilt School of Nursing

October 30, 2008

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During his 20 years in medicine, Dr. Bill Frist performed over 150 heart and lung transplant procedures and authored over 100 articles, chapters and abstracts on medical research. Believing he could do more for medicine, patients, fellow Tennesseans and his country, he won election to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first practicing physician to serve in that body since 1928. He served as a deputy whip and was elected by his colleagues to chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Frist was chosen unanimously to serve as the 16th majority leader of the Senate and was reelected unanimously. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he served as one of only two congressional representatives to the UN General Assembly in the 107th Congress. Keeping his pledge to serve only two terms, Frist voluntarily stepped down as majority leader to return to Nashville.

Prior to his election, Frist was director of Vanderbilt Medical Center's heart and lung transplantation program, and taught and operated at the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. A pioneer in lung and heart transplantation, he founded the Southeast's first multi-organ, multidisciplinary transplant center at Vanderbilt. Under his leadership, the center became recognized as one of the premier transplant facilities in the nation. Currently Dr. Frist travels at least once a year to sub-Saharan Africa as part of World Medical Mission to do surgery and care for those stricken with disease. He is the Chair of Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit committed to improving the quality of life for communities around the world.

The lecture is part of Vanderbilt School of Nursing Centennial Lecture Series. There will be a reception following the lecture.

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  October 30, 2008

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  Thursday 6:00pm-7:30pm

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  Vanderbilt University - Wilson Hall

  111 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37235

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