Senator William Frist, M.D.

Senator William H. Frist, M.D. is a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U. S. Senate Majority Leader, and Chairman of the Executive Council of the private equity firm Cressey & Company. Dr. Frist represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate for 12 years where his focus was health. He was elected Majority Leader of the Senate, having served fewer total years in Congress than any person chosen to lead that body in history. 

Currently, Frist serves as an adjunct professor of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University and clinical professor of Surgery at Meharry Medical College. He is the founder and Chairman of Hope Through Healing Hands (global health), SCORE (statewide collaborative on K12 education reform) and NashvilleHealth (community health). He is also the co-founder of Aspire Health, the nation’s largest provider of non-hospice community-based palliative care.