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O Howard Frazier, M.D.

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O Howard Frazier, M.D.

Professor of Surgery

Email

ofrazier@texasheart.org

Positions

Professor of Surgery

Cardiothoracic Transplantation & Circulatory Support
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Chief, Center for Cardiac Support

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Chief, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation

Texas Heart Institute

Program Director and Chief, Center for Cardiac Support

Texas Heart Institute

Director, Surgical Research, Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories

Texas Heart Institute

Addresses

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Hospital)

6720 Bertner Ave.
Room: LUKE-2-114A
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

01/1974 - Houston, TX United States

BS from University of Texas at Austin

01/1963 - Austin, TX United States

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

01/1967 - Houston, TX United States

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

01/1968 - Houston, TX United States

General Surgery

Fellowship at Texas Heart Institute - Baylor College of Medicine

01/1976 - Houston, TX United States

Thoracic Surgery

Certifications

Thoracic Surgery

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

General Surgery

American Board of Surgery

Honors & Awards

2009 Best of the Best

Medical Journal Houston

Houston’s Top Docs - Physicians Who May One Day Save Your Life”

Inside Houston

The Country's Best Heart Doctors"

Good Housekeeping Magazine

Wilhelm Scholê International Cosmopolis Award

Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement

Texas Heart Institute

America’s Top Doctors

Castle Connolly

Living Legend Award

World Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

America’s Top Doctors

Newsweek Magazine

First Annual “Gift to Mankind” Award

American Organ Transplant Association

Best Doctors in America

The Best Medical Specialists in North America

Town & Country

2021 Scientific Achievement Award

American Association for Thoracic Surgery

ASAIO Lifetime Achievement Award

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

Professional Interests

Professional Statement

For more than 30 years, Dr. O. H. Frazier has been a pioneer in the treatment of severe heart failure and in the fields of heart transplantation and artificial devices that may be used either to substitute for or assist the pumping action of the human heart. As a result of his work, the Texas Heart Institute has become one of the top transplantation and mechanical circulatory support programs in the world. Dr. Frazier has performed over 1,200 heart transplants and implanted more than 900 left ventricular assist devices, more than any other surgeon in the world. Dr. Frazier’s interest in mechanical circulatory support began in 1969, when, as a student at Baylor College of Medicine, he wrote a research paper about the experimental total artificial heart, which was first implanted in 1969 by Dr. Denton Cooley. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Frazier continued experimental work toward developing an implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) to aid the failing heart. In 2011, Dr. Frazier implanted the first successful continuous-flow total artificial heart using two second generation HeartMate II LVADs to replace a patient’s failing heart.

Websites

VIICTR Research Database

Videos

Dr. Bud Frazier - Pioneering a New Frontier

Selected Publications

Hide 65 publications

Memberships

American College of Cardiology

Fellow

American College of Surgeons

Fellow

Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society

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