Positions
- Professor of Surgery
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Cardiothoracic Transplantation & Circulatory Support
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US
- Chief, Center for Cardiac Support
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Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
- Chief, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation
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Texas Heart Institute
- Program Director and Chief, Center for Cardiac Support
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Texas Heart Institute
- Director, Surgical Research, Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories
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Texas Heart Institute
Addresses
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Hospital)
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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
Dr. Frazier's Research
VIICTR Research Database
Videos
Dr. Bud Frazier - Pioneering a New Frontier
Dr. Bud Frazier - Pioneering a New Frontier
Selected Publications
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Park SJ, Tector A, Piccioni W, Raines E, Gelijns A, Moskowitz A, Rose E, Holman W, Furukawa S, Frazier OH, Dembitsky W. " Left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy: a new look at survival. " J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.. 2005 Jan ; 129 (1) : 41534.
Pubmed PMID: 15632819. -
Undar A, Henderson N, Thurston GB, Masai T, Beyer EA, Frazier OH, Fraser CD. " The effects of pulsatile versus nonpulsatile perfusion on blood viscoelasticity before and after deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in a neonatal piglet model. " Artif Organs. 1999 Aug ; 23 (8) : 717-21.
Pubmed PMID: 10463495. -
Slaughter MS, Rogers JG, Milano CA, Russell SD, Conte JV, Feldman D, Sun B, Tatooles AJ, Delgado RM, Long JW, Wozniak TC, Ghumman W, Farrar DJ, Frazier OH. " Advanced heart failure treated with continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. " N. Engl. J. Med.. 2009 Dec 3; 361 (23) : 2241-51.
Pubmed PMID: 19920051. -
Pagani FD, Miller LW, Russell SD, Aaronson KD, John R, Boyle AJ, Conte JV, Bogaev RC, MacGillivray TE, Naka Y, Mancini D, Massey HT, Chen L, Klodell CT, Aranda JM, Moazami N, Ewald GA, Farrar DJ, Frazier OH. " Extended mechanical circulatory support with a continuous-flow rotary left ventricular assist device. " J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.. 2009 Jul 21; 54 (4) : 312-21.
Pubmed PMID: 19608028.
Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- Fellow
- American College of Surgeons
- Fellow
- Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society
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