Name Charles Fraser | Role Surgeon | |
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Dr charles fraser chief of surgery texas children s hospital
Charles D Fraser, Jr. is Surgeon-in-Chief, Chief of the Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, and Cardiac Surgeon in-Charge at Texas Children's Hospital, chief of the Congenital Heart Surgery Division at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Program at the Texas Heart Institute.
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- Dr charles fraser chief of surgery texas children s hospital
- Career
- Accomplishments
- Awards
- Appearances in popular media
- References
Career
Following his graduation from Midland High School in Midland, Texas, Fraser received his Bachelor's cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Texas in 1980. After completing his medical degree at University of Texas Medical Branch, Fraser studied as a resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he specialized in general, cardiothoracic and thoracic transplant surgery. Fraser has completed three fellowships: pediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital, cardiac transplant research at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute.
In 1995, Fraser was recruited by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine to establish their then-new Congenital Heart Surgery unit.
In 2011, He was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital.
Accomplishments
In 2002, Fraser’s team developed the first pediatric lung transplant program in the Southwest United States, which has grown to become the largest in the nation. In March 2004, Fraser implanted the world's first pediatric Ventricular Assist Device. In 2005, he performed the first successful pediatric heart/lung transplant in the Southwest. Fraser has published over 100 journal articles, chapters, and textbooks in medical literature, and has performed over 10,000 congenital cardiac repair surgeries in children.
Dr. Fraser served as the National Principal Investigator of a pediatric ventricular assist device trial to assess the safety and benefit of the Berlin Heart Pediatric EXCOR ventricular assist device. This device was subsequently approved in December 2011 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clinical use - the first device to be approved specifically for small babies.
In 2011, Dr. Fraser's heart failure team implanted the first total artificial heart at a children's hospital.
Awards
Appearances in popular media
Fraser was featured in the Discovery Channel Series Surgery Saved My Life, where in the episode "Train Wreck Heart", he performed a Transposition of the Great Arteries correction procedure on a five-day-old newborn.