Freddie Fu


Freddie H. Fu is a Hong Kong-American doctor and academic. He is the David Silver Professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In 2010, he was appointed by the University of Pittsburgh as the eighth distinguished service professor.

Career

Fu was president of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and, in 2008, assumed the presidency of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and was the first foreign-born president in AOSSM's 40-year history. In 2009, he was named president of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. In 2011, he received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Diversity Award. In 2012, Fu received the Sports Leadership Award from Dapper Dan Charities, which was subsequently re-named the Freddie Fu Sports Leadership Award and will remain in perpetuity.

Pitt Orthopaedic Research

His team currently has more than 100 studies completed or underway to evaluate the merits of the anatomic approach by viewing the knee as an organ. He also has ongoing collaborations with K. Christopher Beard, Ph.D., a vertebrate paleontologist, and other curators at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and veterinarians at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Additionally Fu is working closely with C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., an anthropologist at Kent State University, who reconstructed the skeleton of “Lucy”, the nearly complete fossil of a human ancestor that walked upright more than three million years ago. Such collaborations allow for detailed study of evolution and bony and soft tissue anatomy of the knee.