William H. Frist is former United States Senate majority leader, founding partner of Frist Cressey Ventures and chair of the global board of the Nature Conservancy. A heart and lung transplant surgeon and founder of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, Frist performed over 150 heart and lung transplants and authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles. As senator, he played a key role in passing the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, PEPFAR legislation providing HIV treatment to 25 million people globally and the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005. Frist helped build health care companies Aspire Health, Monogram Health and CareBridge and founded NashvilleHealth, SCORE and Hope Through Healing Hands. With his wife Tracy, he established the Senator Bill and Tracy Frist Initiative for Planetary and Human Health within The Nature Conservancy.
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