On Tuesday, Dec. 1, former Tennessee Senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will deliver a program at Vanderbilt in honor of World AIDS Day, according to Vanderbilt News Services.
The event will take place in the Student Life Center ballroom at 7:30 p.m. with a reception preceding it at 6:30. Tickets are free and are available now at the Sarratt Student Center ticket office.
Frist's talk, entitled "Celebrating Life, Mourning Death: Continuing the Fight Against Global AIDS" is sponsored by Office of Active Citizenship & Service, The Commons, East House, ONE, Red Cross at Vanderbilt, VandyCares, Global Health Council, Office of the Dean of Students and Vanderbilt Student Government's Arts and Science Council Association.
Frist, a current assistant professor of cardiac surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is also a renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon, according to Vanderbilt News Services. He is a co-chair of the Save The Children organization's "Survive to 5" program devoted to saving the lives of children under the age of five and leads yearly medical mission trips to Africa.
According to Vanderbilt News Services, Frist's own non-profit organization Hope Through Healing Hands promotes improved quality of life for individuals and communities around the world through the belief that healthcare can be a currency for peace. Frist was also a co-chair of ONE Vote '08, a non-partisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 election.
