“You’re trained to respond. … In moments like that, you are not a judge, not a jury, you are a physician. It was a tragic incident. I know almost all of the Capitol guards.”
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Bill Frist
William Harrison Frist is an American physician, businessman, and policymaker who served as a United States senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Med…
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Born 22 February 1952 · Q31112
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2026· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
NashvilleHealth completed, in partnership with the Nashville Metro Public Health Department, the first community health and well-being survey of Nashville/Davidson County residents in nearly 20 years
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2015· 2 entries
Frist married Tracy Lynne Roberts (b
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Frist co-founded Frist Cressey Ventures, a Nashville-based venture capital firm focused on partnering with early-stage healthcare companies
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2013· 2 entries
Frist partnered with Brad Smith to start Aspire Health, which grew to be the largest non-hospice community-based palliative care company in the U
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Frist voiced support for higher academic standards in grades K-12, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and improving efforts to identify, foster, and reward effective teaching
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2011· 1 entry
Received the Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership in recognition of his life-saving efforts worldwide, and the importance of business aviation to those endeavors
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2010· 1 entry
Frist served on the six-person board of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which had raised $66 million for immediate earthquake relief and long-term recovery efforts in the Caribbean country
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2009· 2 entries
Frist stated that he would have broken with his party by voting in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was unanimously opposed by Republicans
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Frist launched a statewide education reform nonprofit organization targeting K-12 education called SCORE (State Collaborative on Reforming Education)
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2008· 1 entry
Became a partner in Chicago-based Cressey & Co
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2007· 1 entry
Honoring his pledge to serve no more than two terms
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2006· 1 entry
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (H
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2005· 2 entries
By the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about stock sales allegedly based on inside information
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Career landmark: United States senator (2005–2007).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Dr. Nathan Davis Award for United States Senators (2004).
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2003· 3 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (2003–2005).
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Frist received Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, which is conferred annually upon an alumnus or alumna of the undergraduate college whose achievements exemplify Woodrow Wilson's memorable phrase, "Princeton in
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Frist and co-author Shirley Wilson released the book, Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family
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2002· 1 entry
Frist was elected Senate majority leader
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2001· 5 entries
Won Golden Plate Award (2001).
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But as time progressed, the stem cell lines became less stable and by 2005 only 22 viable lines remained
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Career landmark: United States senator (2001–2003).
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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Frist had laid out 10 principles that guided his views on stem cells, which he restated on the Senate floor in 2006
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1999–2001).
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1998· 1 entry
Frist administered emergency aid to victims and the shooter in the 1998 Capitol Shooting
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1997· 2 entries
For the construction of the Frist Campus Center
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Career landmark: United States senator (1997–1999).
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1995· 3 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1995–1997).
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Frist, then a sitting senator, successfully resuscitated a constituent suffering a heart attack in the Dirksen Senate Office building
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Which described case studies in kidney, heart, lung, liver, and bone marrow transplantation drawn from Vanderbilt's case load
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1994· 1 entry
And gained national attention after his election to Senate majority leader
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1992· 2 entries
Frist organized a statewide grassroots campaign to return the organ donation card to the Tennessee driver's license and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Tennessee Medical Association for his efforts
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That Frist begin preparations to run in 1994
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1991· 1 entry
Frist operated on then–Lieutenant Colonel David Petraeus after he had been shot in a training accident at Fort Campbell
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1990· 2 entries
Frist met with former Senate majority leader Howard Baker about the possibilities of public office
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Performed Tennessee's first single-lung transplant, a notoriously difficult procedure
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1989· 1 entry
Founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, which today performs more heart transplants than any other center in the world
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1984· 1 entry
As chief resident and fellow in cardiothoracic surgery
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1983· 1 entry
Spent time at Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, England as a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery
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1981· 2 entries
Frist married Karyn McLaughlin
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In 1981, Frist married Karyn McLaughlin.
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1978· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine (1978).
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Became a resident in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
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1977· 1 entry
Where he continued his training in cardiovascular physiology
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1974· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1974).
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1972· 1 entry
Held a summer internship with Tennessee congressman Joe L
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1970· 1 entry
From Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, and then from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1974
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-02-22.
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1846· 1 entry
As "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," and vested responsibility for the administration of the Smithsonian in a board of regents, consisting of the chief justice of the United States, the vice
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