Freddie H. Fu ( zh, t=傅浩強, j=Fu6 Hou6-koeng4; (1950 – September 24, 2021) was a Hong Kongese-American doctor and academic. He was the David Silver Professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the

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. In 2010, he was appointed by the

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as the eighth distinguished service professor. He died due to metastatic melanoma on 24 September 2021.

Career

Fu was born in Hong Kong, his ancestral hometown is Nanhai district, Foshan city, Guangdong province. He attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the

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fraternity. Dr. Fu was president of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and, in 2008, assumed the presidency of the

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(AOSSM) 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

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' (AAOS) Diversity Award. In 2012, Fu received the Sports Leadership Award from

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, which was subsequently renamed the Freddie Fu Sports Leadership Award and will remain in perpetuity.

Pitt orthopaedic research

At the time of his death, his team had more than 100 studies completed or underway to evaluate the merits of the anatomic approach by viewing the knee as an organ. He also had ongoing collaborations with K. Christopher Beard, Ph.D., a vertebrate paleontologist, and other curators at the

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and veterinarians at the

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. Additionally, Fu worked closely with C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., an anthropologist at

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, who reconstructed the skeleton of “

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”, the nearly complete fossil of a human ancestor that walked upright more than three million years ago.http://pittmed.health.pitt.edu/Winter_2009/wobbly_knee.pdf Such collaborations allowed for detailed study of evolution and bony and soft tissue anatomy of the knee.

References

External links

Orthonet

* ttp://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/May-2011/Doc-Star-Dr-Freddie-Fu/ Pittsburgh Magazine - May 2011 - Doc Star Freddie Fu
Pitt Magazine - Fall 2010 - Man in Motion

Pittsburgh Magazine - May 2011 - A Day in the Life of Freddie Fu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fu, Freddie 1950 births 2021 deaths American sports physicians University of Pittsburgh faculty American orthopedic surgeons American people of Hong Kong descent