Republican Deputy Whip, 106th Congress

Co-Chair, 2000 Republican National Convention

Majority Leader, United States Senate, 2003-2007

Senator, United States Senate, 1994-2002

Deputy Director, Tennessee Bush-Quayle Campaign, 1992

Co-Chairman, The Forum on Technology and Innovation, 1997-present

Senate Rural Health Caucus, 108th Congress

Experience, Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare

Experience, Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition

Chair, National Republican Senatorial Committee

Co-Chair, Organ and Tissue Donation Task Force

Founder and Co-Chairman, Science and Technology Caucus

United States Senate Liaison, George W. Bush for President Committee, 2000

Chairman, Senate Republican Medicare Working Group, 1995-1996

Chairman, Governor’s Medicaid Task Force, 1992-1993

Author, Articles & Abstracts on Medical Research & Policy

Experience, Heart and Lung Transplant Specialist

Staff Surgeon, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital, 1986-1993

Director, Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1986-1993

Surgical Director, Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1986-1993

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1986-1993

Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1986-1993

Board of Trustees, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2003-present

Board of Trustees, Open World Leadership Center, 2003-present

Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002-present

Advisory Board, St. Alban’s School, Washington District of Columbia, School for Public Service, 2002-present

Honorary Board of Directors, American Running Association, 2001-present

Honorary Board of Trustees, Center for Excellence in Education, 2001-present

Advisory Board, Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2001-present

Board of Trustees, Library of Congress Center for Russian Leadership Development, 2001-present

Board of Directors, National Endowment for Democracy, 2001-present

Governing Board, St. Alban’s School, Washington District of Columbia, 2001-present

Co-Chair, Harvard Medical School, Advisory Council for the Department of Health Care Policy, 1999-present

Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution, 1997-present

Rotary Club of Nashville, 1993-present

Member, Alpha Omega Alpha

Member, American Bronco-Esophagological Association

Member, American College Of Surgeons

Member, American College of Chest Physicians

Honorary Chairman, American Heart Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter 1996 Heart Gala

Honorary Chairman, American Heart Association, Tennessee Affiliate 1996 Heart Gala

Member, American Medical Association

Member, American Society of Transplant Physicians

Member, American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Member, Association for Academic Surgery

Member, Cum Laude Society

Member, Flying Physicians' Association

Member, H. William Scott, Jr. Society

Member, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

Member, Massachusetts Medical Society

Advisory Board, Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, Tennessee

Member, Nashville Academy of Medicine

Member, Nashville Cardiovascular Society

Member, Nashville Surgical Society

Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Member, Southeastern Surgical Congress

Member, Southern Thoracic Surgical Association

Member, Tennessee Medical Association

Member, Tennessee Transplant Society

Member, The Transplantation Society

Chairman, Board of Regents Audit and Review Committee Smithsonian Institution, 2000-2003

Chairman, Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents Audit and Review Committee, 2000-2003

Board of Directors, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2001-2002

Advisory Board, Center for Economic Policy Studies Princeton University, 1995-2001

Board of Trustees, Princeton University, 1974-1978, 1991-2001

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, 2001

State Campaign Chairperson, American Heart Association, Tennessee Affiliate, 1996

Advisory Board, National Heart Assist Transplant Fund, 1987-1995

Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter, 1990-1994

Board of Directors, American Heart Association, Tennessee Affiliate, 1991-1994

Board of Trustees, Ensworth School, 1992-1994

Delegate to the Tennessee Medical Association House of Delegates, Nashville Academy of Medicine, 1992-1994

Advisory Board, Tennessee Donor Services, 1986-1994

Board of Directors, Third National Bank, 1990-1994

Editorial Board, Transplantation Science, 1991-1994

Board of Trustees, YMCA Foundation of Metropolitan Nashville, 1992-1994

Board of Overseers Committee on University Resources Harvard College, 1993-1994

Girl Scout Advisory Board, Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council, 1993

Chairman, Governor's Medicaid Task Force State of Tennessee, 1992-1993

Co-Chairman, Nashville Academy of Medicine Medico-Legal Committee, 1990-1993

Organ and Tissue Donation Committee Veterans Administration Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 1992-1993

Board of Directors, National Kidney Foundation of Middle Tennessee, 1990-1993

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1988-1993

President, American Heart Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter, 1991-1992

Board of Directors, Cumberland Science Museum, 1989-1992

Vice-President, National Kidney Foundation of Middle Tennessee, 1991-1992

Chairman, American Heart Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter, Medical and Community Programs, 1990-1991

Board of Directors, American Lung Association of Tennessee, 1989-1991

Chairman, Communications Committee United Network for Organ Sharing, 1989-1991

Alternate Delegate, Tennessee Medical Association, 1988-1991

Advisory Committee, The National Cooperative Transplantation Study, 1989-1991

Leadership Nashville, 1990-1991

President-Elect, American Heart Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter, 1989-1990

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Clinical Advisory Panel, National Heart Transplantation Network, 1990

Advisory Committee, University Health Services Princeton University, 1978-1984

Advisory Committee, Strategies for Prevention of Disease and Promotion of Health, 1977

Astrological Sign:

Pisces

Awards:

-Dr. Nathan Davis Award, American Medical Association 2004
-Spirit of Enterprise, the United States Chamber of Commerce 2004

First Job:

Flying (commercial, instrument, and multiengine pilot), Running (seven marathons), Hunting with His Sons, Medical Mission Trips to Africa, and Writing

Publications:

Good People Beget Good People: A Geneology of the Frist Family (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2003)
-When Every Moment Counts: What You Need to Know About Bioterrorism from the Senate's Only Doctor (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002)
-Tennessee Senators 1911-2002: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change (Madison Books 1999)
-Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death Dramas of the New Medicine (Atlantic Monthly, 1989)