Senator Frist is the Distinguished University Professor of Business and Medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Prior to Vanderbilt, he served as Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate from 2002 until 2007 and as U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee since 1994, holding seats on the Finance Committee overseeing health policy and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Prior to the Senate, he was a Heart And Lung Transplant Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, Stanford University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Senator Frist is consistently recognized among the most influential leaders in American healthcare and is one of only two individuals to rank in the top ten of each of the five inaugural Modern Healthcare Magazine annual surveys of the most powerful people in healthcare in the United States.

Senator Frist earned an MD, from Harvard Medical School and a BA from Princeton University.