Less than a year after beginning "a sabbatical from public life," former Tennessee senator Bill Frist '74 will join the University as a visiting professor in the Wilson School.
"We are very pleased to welcome Bill Frist back to Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson School," Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said in a statement. "His years of experience in public service as a doctor and as a leader in the U.S. Senate make him an ideal practitioner-professor. Our students will benefit from his perspectives both as a healer and as Senate majority leader."
Frist, famously the first practicing doctor to serve in the Senate since the 1920s, will teach a course on health policy during both of his semesters at the University, one in the fall for graduate students and one in the spring for undergraduates.
Since his term in the Senate ended in January, Frist has focused on medicine, striving to use his work as a physician to effect broader international change. His activities as a doctor and as a politician intertwine, as he performs surgeries in rural African villages while simultaneously striving to have a hand in the political conflicts plaguing the continent.
In a recent interview with The Daily Princetonian, Frist voiced concern over the level of partisanship in Washington and spoke passionately about his medical work in Africa, calling it "a currency for peace." In February, Frist and his wife Karyn took a three-week tour through Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Sudan, seeing firsthand that continent's struggles.
Frist's youngest son Bryan will be a sophomore at the University this fall. His oldest son, Harrison, is a member of the Class of 2006.
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