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TEXAS CHILDREN'S HEART
CENTER
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Dr.
Charles D. Fraser |
Charles D. Fraser Jr., M.D., chief of congenital heart
surgery and cardiac surgeon in-charge at Texas Children’s
Hospital. His
academic appointments include chief of the division of
congenital Heart surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey
Department of Surgery at
Baylor College of Medicine. Dr.
Fraser also holds the Donovan Chair in Congenital Heart
Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital and has joint
clinical appointments at the
Texas Heart Institute and the
University of Texas, Houston.
As chief of the Division of Congenital Heart Surgery at
Baylor and co-director of the Texas Children’s Heart
Center, Dr. Fraser has developed a team specialized in the
surgical treatment of small babies, children and adults
with congenital cardiac disease. His team focuses on the
surgical care of these patients with emphasis on complex
neonatal repair of hypoplastic left heart syndrome,
transposition of the great arteries, truncus arteriosis
and other serious cardiac malformations. Dr. Fraser has
developed dedicated pediatric heart and lung transplant
and mechanical circulatory support teams to offer every
available therapy in the care of critically ill children.
Dr. Fraser has maintained an active research program with
specific interests in congenital heart surgical outcomes,
transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and brain
protection. In 2002, his team developed the first
pediatric lung transplant program in the Southwest. He
implanted the world’s first
MicroMed/DeBakey® child ventricular assist device in March of 2004. Dr. Fraser has contributed over
100 journal articles, chapters and textbooks to the
medical literature. His awards include the Outstanding
Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas in 1999,
the American Heart Association Medical Honoree in 2002
and the Michael E. DeBakey Distinguished Service Award
from Baylor College of Medicine in 2004.
Dr. Fraser received a bachelor’s degree with honors in
mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980
and was a member of the Southwest Conference Champion
varsity tennis team in 1977. He received his medical
degree from the University of Texas at Galveston, where he
was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor
society. His postgraduate residency education was at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland where he
specialized in general, cardiothoracic and thoracic
transplant surgery. Dr. Fraser completed fellowships in
pediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital
in Melbourne, Australia, cardiac transplant research at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital and cardiovascular surgery at
the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas. He was
recruited to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas
Children’s Hospital in 1995 to establish a new, focused
congenital heart surgery unit. Since that time, he and his
team have performed more than 6,000 congenital cardiac repairs
and related surgeries in children.
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