Originally from the Lone Star State, he graduated from the University of Houston in 2004 and earned his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in 2008. He finally left Texas and moved north to complete his family medicine residency at the UIC/Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency in Chicago, Illinois in 2011.
After residency, he worked in an FQHC in the southside of Chicago and then did locum tenens for two years working in Washington State, Hawaii, and California. He missed academic medicine and moved to Pittsburgh to start the faculty development fellowship at UPMC St. Margaret. He also completed an MPH in health policy and management at Pitt and completed a HRSA T32 primary care research fellowship focusing on opioid use disorder in the Pennsylvania Medicaid population.
After three years in Pittsburgh, he moved back to Texas to become an Associate Program Director and medical director at the UTMB family medicine residency program in Galveston, Texas. After enjoying the beach life in Galveston, he boomeranged back to Pittsburgh to be Associate Program Director at the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program.
He joined the department of family medicine in August 2024 to become Vice Chair for Education to support the educational programming within the department and to also pursue his scholarly work. He is passionate about teaching and mentoring learners. Dr. Frazier is married to a fellow family medicine physician who specializes in gender-affirming care and has two children.
- University of Houston, B. S. Biology and Psychology
- Baylor College of Medicine, M.D.
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency
- University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, M.P.H. Health Policy and Management