Bill Frist Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon and former Senate majority leader.
Personal
Birth place: Nashville, Tennessee
Father: Thomas Frist Sr., physician
Mother: Dorothy (Cate) Frist
Children: with Karyn (McLaughlin) Frist:
Bryan Edward, 1987; Jonathan McLaughlin, 1985; William Harrison Jr., 1983
Education: Princeton University, A.B. in health policy, 1974; Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1978
Religion: Presbyterian
Has performed more than 200 heart and lung transplant procedures.
Serves as co-chair on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Health Project.
Currently holds the position of adjunct professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. Frist is also a clinical professor of surgery at Meharry Medical College.
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US health systems must fund better outreach and education in communities of color, experts say.
In healthcare deserts, more mobile clinics could help residents get vaccines.
Since COVID-19 arrived in the US a year ago, the country s Black and Latino citizens have been hit hardest: their outsized representation as essential workers, along with other systemic factors, have left their communities more than two to three times more vulnerable to severe disease and death from the virus, overall.
Now, as relief begins trickling out to Americans in the form of vaccines, the same communities appear to be at a disadvantage, once again.