Biographical Sketch
FREDDIE H. FU, MD, D.Sc. (Hon.), D.Ps. (Hon.)
Dr. Freddie H. Fu is the David Silver Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Fu specializes in Sports Medicine and holds secondary appointments as Professor of Physical Therapy, Health & Physical Activity, and Mechanical Engineering and serves as the Head Team Physician for the University of Pittsburgh Athletic Department. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from PointParkUniversity, an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from ChathamUniversity, and in 2010 was appointed Distinguished Service Professor by the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Fu graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1974 and received his BMS in 1975 from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He earned his medical degree in 1977from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his general surgery internship at BrownUniversity. He then returned to Pitt for an orthopaedic research fellowship and to complete his orthopaedic residency training. During that time, Dr. Fu was an AO International Fellow at the HannoverTraumaCenter in Germany and an arthroscopic surgery fellow in East Lansing, Michigan. In 1984 Dr. Fu was selected as an AOA North American Traveling Fellow and in 1988 as an ESSKA-AOSSM Sports Medicine Travelling Fellow he visited over 30 sports medicine centers in Europe.
Dr. Fu’s major research interest lies in anatomic ACL reconstruction, clinical outcomes, and bioengineering of sports-related problems. His research efforts have led to 230professional awards and honors, 1027national and international presentations, and editorship of 29major orthopaedic textbooks. Dr. Fu is also the author or co-author of 499peer-reviewed articles and 119book chapters on the management of sports injuries. He is a member and has held offices in numerous academic organizations including the prestigious Herodicus Societyand American Orthopaedic Association. He served as the President of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and as a board member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. In 1996 he was a co-recipient of the prestigious Kappa Delta Award for his shoulder research, as well as being awarded by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Presidential Challenge Award for significant contributions in athletic training. One year later he was elected to the Inaugural Executive Board of the International Cartilage Repair Society. He is on the Board of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). In July 2008 he assumed the Presidency ofthe AOSSMfor a one-year term and, in April 2009, was named President of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) for a two-year term.
Dr. Fu is very active in his community. He has served as Chairman of the Board and Executive Medical Director of the City of Pittsburgh Marathon, Company Physician and Board member of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the W. PA Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Team Physician for Mt. LebanonHigh School. Dr. Fu is the past president of the Children’s Festival Chorus, a member of the W. PA Olympic Committee, an honorary board member of the Parental Stress Center, and the 2002 President of Dapper Dan Charities and recipient of their 2012 Sports Leadership Award. He received the Pittsburgh Man of the Year in Sciences Award in 1990 and in 2004 was named Vectors/Pittsburgh Man of the Year for Community Service. In 1993, he was voted “Best Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Physician” by PittsburghMagazine. He was selected through a nationwide poll of leading physiciansin the Best Doctors in America In 1996 Dr. Fu was singled out for excellence in the field of Sports Medicine/Arthroscopy and was featured as “Top Doc” on the cover of Pittsburgh Magazine and, in 1999, Dr. Fu was named one of the 100 Pittsburghers of the Century by Pittsburgh Magazine. In 2012 the Rotary Club or Warren Pennsylvania named him member for life. In 2007 he was honored with the History Makers Award in the field of Medicine and Health by the Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center and is currently collaborating with curators at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and veterinarians at the Pittsburgh Zoo in the study of the evolution and anatomy of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee.
He is primarily responsible for the conception and oversight of the design and construction of the $80 million UPMC Sports Performance Complex, a 60 acre state-of-the-art sports medicine complex which opened in October 2000. The Center has a multidisciplinary approach to sports injuries and performance and is the first of its kind in the US to have the resources of a major academic and clinical system with professional and collegiate sports team programs. In 1994 the UPMCCenter for Sports Medicine was rated as one of the top ten centers in the United States in Men’s Journal magazine and again 1998 in Self Magazine. It attracts local/national/international patients, and hundreds of elite world-class athletes have been treated at the Center. The complex is used as a model in more than ten countries and has been a magnet for more than 600 visiting surgeons and fellows from over 50 countries in six continents.
In 2002 he was named an Honorary Professor at PekingUniversity and serves as a consultant for the Li Ka Shing Foundation and ShantouUniversity in ShantouChina. The Chinese Hospital Association of San Francisco named him the 2002 Chinese Hospital Physician of the Year. In Macau he received the 2010 ENDOS Science and Technology Award for International Leadership in Endoscopy. Dr. Fu also oversees one of the top and most ethnically and gender-diversified orthopaedic residency training programs in the country which attracts the best and brightest young surgeons/researchers from the US and abroad. For his efforts he received the 2011 AmericanAcademy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Diversity Award.
Dr. Fu is married to Hilda Pang Fu, a porcelain painter as well as founder and president of Luminari, a Pittsburgh based non-profit formed to broaden minds and inspire innovation. She has served as Director of External Relations of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Executive Director of Summer Programs at Point Park University,founding Director of the Pittsburgh Regional Champions, creator of the Pittsburgh Regional Brag Book, former chairwoman of the board of Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and founding board member of ToonSeum. They have a son, Gordon, a businessman and 1999 graduate of Dartmouth Collegewith anMBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Their daughter, Joyce, is a 2003 Dartmouth gradand2006 graduate of ColumbiaUniversityLawSchool. (7/13)