The Honorable William H. Frist will keynote the 25th annual Lamb Lecture at ETSU.
His presentation, Health Diplomacy: Using Medicine as a Currency for Peace, will be delivered in the Brown Hall Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m.
A native of Nashville, Frist served as a U.S. senator from 1995-2007 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2003-2007. He is currently the Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
With his election to the U.S. Senate, Frist became the first practicing physician to be elected to that body since 1928. He rose to Senate Majority Leader just eight years after his election, having served less time in Congress than anyone ever to hold that position.
Sen. Frist recorded a number of legislative accomplishments as Majority Leader, including the nation’s first comprehensive national energy policy; the provision of access to affordable prescription drugs for 43 million seniors; landmark bioterrorism preparedness legislation; serving as a champion of American leadership in the global fight against HIV/AIDS; and the assurance of access to clean water as a cornerstone of foreign assistance.
Frist graduated from Princeton University and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He spent six years in general and thoracic surgery training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Southampton General Hospital in England. In 1985, he joined the heart transplant team of Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford University.
Board-certified in both general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery and recognized as a pioneer in heart-lung transplantation, Frist returned to his hometown and became director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s heart and lung transplantation program in 1986. Three years later, he founded and became Director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center.
The ETSU Lamb Lecture Series was established in memory of John P. Lamb Jr., the university’s first dean of health.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, or to request special assistance, call the ETSU College of Public and Allied Health at (423) 439-4243.

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