Last updated on:
3/2/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Bill Frist, MD Biography
- Title:
- Former Senator (R-TN)
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“[T]he ACLU’s continued attacks on the Boy Scouts are starting to become its own form of persecution.”
Press statement, Nov. 20, 2004
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with PhDs and JDs or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the ACLU. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to the ACLU. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- US Senator, Tennesee, 1994-2006
- Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 2004
- Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Howard University, Washington, DC, 2004
- Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, Morehouse College of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003
- Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee, 2001
- Honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1999
- Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999
- Named one of two Congressional representatives to the United Nations General Assembly, 2001
- Unanimously elected chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), 2000
- Faculty, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1985-1993
- Surgical training, Massachusetts General Hospital, Southampton General Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center, 1978-1985
- Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiner
- Diplomate of American Board of Surgery
- Diplomate of American Board of Thoracic Surgery
- Education:
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- MD, Harvard Medical School, 1978
- BA, Princeton University, specialized in health care policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1974
- Other:
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- Performed over 150 heart and lung transplant procedures, including the first successful combined heart-lung transplant in the Southeast
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