Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will speak about leadership at a March 26 breakfast sponsored by the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Frist is University Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt, a partner in the private invetment firm Cressey and Company LP and a heart and lung transplant surgeon. He represented Tennessee in the Senate for 12 years.
Today he is focused on domestic health reform, heart transplantation, global health policy, economic development in low-income countries, health care disparities, medical mission work in Sudan, genocide in Darfur and HIV/AIDS issues.
The public is invited to the event, to be held at the University Club of Nashville, 2402 Garland Ave. Admission, which includes a breakfast buffet, costs $10 for Vanderbilt students and $20 for others. Pre-registration is required to attend, and can be done at www.vanderbilt.edu/moral_leadership. Audio and video of Frist’s talk will be recorded for podcast on VUCast, the website of Vanderbilt News Service, at www.vanderbilt.edu/news/.
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