Bill Frist, former Tenn. senator and senate majority leader, will be speaking at UT on Friday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. in the University Center's Shiloh Room.

Frist was a Republican senator representing Tennessee from 1995 to 2007, said the Congresspedia Web site. He was senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007.

Frist, a native of Tennessee, was born in Nashville on Feb. 22, 1952. He did not enter politics until the early 1990s according to the Congresspedia Web site. He won his re-election in 2000 with a history-making 66 percent of the vote.

Frist's main issue is health care, said the Congresspedia Web site.  It is this issue that he will be speaking about at the Baker Center Luncheon on Friday at 11:30 a.m., which will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. His lecture is entitled "Health Care: Back to the Future, 2015."

His address at the UC Shiloh Room will be about his work in Africa. This lecture is entitled "Africa: Global Disease and Why It Really Matters," according to a UT press release.

The lecture at the Shiloh Room is at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 and is open to the public.