Background
Frist, Thomas Fearn was born on December 15, 1910 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States.
Frist, Thomas Fearn was born on December 15, 1910 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States.
Bachelor of Science, University Mississippi, 1929. Doctor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 1933.
Intern University Iowa, 1933-1935. Assistant clinician Vanderbilt University, 1935-1937;, 1940-1993. Emeritus The Frist Clinic, Nashville, since 1993.
Past president staff Nashville General Hospital. Past president, member executive committee St. Thomas Hospital. Co-founder, past president Hospital Corporation American, 1968-1971.
Vice-chairman board, chief medical services. Founder, vice-chairman board American Retirement Corporation, past chairman President's Committee on Aging, Washington.
Founder, past Chairman of the Board Park Manor Presbyterian Apts. for Elderly. Founder, past Chairman of the Board Cumberland Heights Foundation for Rehabilitation Alcoholics. Founder, board directors Medical Benevolence Foundation.
Board directors Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville. Honorary trustee Rhodes College, Memphis. Served to major United States Army Air Force, World World War World War II.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member Southeastern Clinical Club (past president), Tennessee Heart Association (past president), Nashville Society Internal Medicine (past president), Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Belle Meade Country Club, Lago Mar Golf Country Club.
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Married Dorothy Cate, 1935. Children: Thomas Fearn, Robert Armistead, William Harrison, Dorothy Frist Boensch, Mary L. Frist Barfield.