Freddie Fu

Freddie H. Fu (傅浩強; pinyin: Fù Hàoqiáng) is a Hong Kong-American doctor and academic.[1] 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.

Freddie H. Fu

Career

Fu was president of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and, in 2008, assumed the presidency of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and was the first foreign-born president in AOSSM's 40-year history.[2] 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' (AAOS) Diversity Award.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5] Such collaborations allow for detailed study of evolution and bony and soft tissue anatomy of the knee.

UPMC Rooney Sports Complex

The year 2000 marked the design and construction of an $80 million UPMC Sports Performance Complex, which was later renamed as the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex[6]. The UPMC Rooney Sports Complex is one of the largest, comprehensive sports medicine facilities in the United States and in the world and features the home of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers Football and Pittsburgh Steelers indoor and outdoor practice facilities.

The UPMC Rooney Sports Complex includes the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, which was renamed as the UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center in 2018 after a $4 million facility upgrade[7]. This building features features the main clinical, radiology and physical therapy facilities of the complex encompassing orthopaedic surgery, primary care sports medicine and a world-renowned sports concussion program.

References
  1. Porteus, James (May 12, 2017). "'I'll always belong to Hong Kong' says Freddie Fu, the surgeon who saved Zlatan Ibrahimovic's career". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  2. http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/37/12/2309.full
  3. Diversity Award
  4. Anderson, Shelly (2012-03-13). "Local sports figures honored for dedication and passion". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, PA. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  5. http://pittmed.health.pitt.edu/Winter_2009/wobbly_knee.pdf
  6. "UPMC Rooney Sports Complex | Pittsburgh, PA". UPMC Sports Medicine. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  7. "/ccpa/". TribLIVE.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
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