2009 World AIDS Day Keynote Address: Senator Bill Frist
12/1/2009
7:30 pm
- 9:00 pm
Contact:
Location:
Student Life Center Ballroom
Location:
Student Life Center Ballroom
Category:
Open to the Public
Free and Open to the Public – No Ticket Required
"Celebrating Life, Mourning Death: Continuing the Fight Against Global AIDS"
William H. Frist, M.D., is a nationally renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon as well as former Senator for Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader.
Senator Frist co-chaired the nonpartisan
ONE Vote '08, part of Bono's ONE campaign
to reduce global poverty and is currently co-chair of Save the Children's Survive to Five campaign. Senator Frist's own nonprofit organization Hope Through Healing Hands is a global health care initiative promoting improved quality of life for individuals and communities around the world through the idea that health can be a currency for peace.
Senator Frist is currently Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He annually leads medical mission trips to Africa.
Reception: 6:30 p.m. Featuring Sankofa, The Blair School of Music's African Performing Ensemble
Sponsored by: The Commons at Vanderbilt University, Office of the Dean of Students, The Office of Active Citizenship and Service, ONE, VandyCares, The Red Cross at Vanderbilt, Arts & Science Council Association, VSG, Global Health Council
