Bill Frist

William Harrison Frist, known as Bill Frist, is an American physician, businessman and politician born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952. He studied government and health care policy at Princeton University, earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School, and trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine. He later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. He served as a United States senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007 and as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007. After leaving the Senate he became chair of the global board of The Nature Conservancy and co-chair of the Health Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and from 2019 to 2022 he hosted A Second Opinion Podcast on policy, medicine and innovation.