Charles Fraser (surgeon)
Charles D Fraser, Jr. is the medical director and surgeon of the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children's Medical Center. Formerly, Fraser was chief of congenital heart surgery and cardiac surgeon-in-charge at Texas Children's Hospital, the nation's largest pediatric hospital, served as 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. Career Dr. Fraser is a native Texan. He was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Midland, Texas. Following his graduation from Midland High School, Fraser attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was a member of the varsity tennis team - Southwest Conference Champions in 1977. He received his bachelor's degree 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