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.
[1] In 1995, Fraser was recruited by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine to establish their then-new congenital heart surgery unit.
Dr. Fraser’s research interests have included congenital heart surgery outcomes, cardiopulmonary transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, neurologic protection, and bioengineering.
Fraser has published over 300 journal articles, chapters, and textbooks in medical literature, and has performed over 18,000 congenital cardiac repair surgeries in children.
[7] 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.