General Info

Dr. Charles Duncan Fraser Jr. is a full-time pediatric cardiac surgeon at Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. This is the only heart care program in Central Texas that offers a full continuum of cardiac diagnostic and treatment services including congenital heart surgery, interventional cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and echocardiography. One of the world's leading pediatric heart surgeons, Charles Fraser, Jr., MD, will become chief of pediatric and congenital cardiothoracic surgery at Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, part of Ascension. Fraser, who will also join the faculty of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin as professor in the Departments of Surgery and Perioperative Care and Pediatrics, will play a leading role in building the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, a focused pediatric and congenital heart program that will offer Central Texans care for complex conditions close to home.