Freddie Fu
{{Short description|Hong Kong-American doctor, academic, and surgeon (1950–2021)}}
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Freddie H. Fu ({{lang-zh|t=傅浩強|j=Fu6 Hou6-koeng4}};{{cite news|access-date=2021-09-25|title=足球{{!}}港產美籍骨科名醫傅浩強離世 曾為伊巴謙施手術挽球員生涯 (16:00)|url=https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%25E9%25AB%2594%25E8%2582%25B2/article/20210925/s00006/1632555820306/%25E8%25B6%25B3%25E7%2590%2583-%25E6%25B8%25AF%25E7%2594%25A2%25E7%25BE%258E%25E7%25B1%258D%25E9%25AA%25A8%25E7%25A7%2591%25E5%2590%258D%25E9%2586%25AB%25E5%2582%2585%25E6%25B5%25A9%25E5%25BC%25B7%25E9%259B%25A2%25E4%25B8%2596-%25E6%259B%25BE%25E7%2582%25BA%25E4%25BC%258A%25E5%25B7%25B4%25E8%25AC%2599%25E6%2596%25BD%25E6%2589%258B%25E8%25A1%2593%25E6%258C%25BD%25E7%2590%2583%25E5%2593%25A1%25E7%2594%259F%25E6%25B6%25AF|language=zh|work=Ming Pao}} (1950 – September 24, 2021){{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/freddie-fu-1950-2021-pioneer-in-knee-surgery/|title=Freddie Fu (1950–2021), pioneer in knee surgery|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=2021-09-28|access-date=2022-01-11}} was a Hong Kongese-American doctor and academic.{{cite news|last1=Porteus|first1=James|title='I'll always belong to Hong Kong' says Freddie Fu, the surgeon who saved Zlatan Ibrahimovic's career|url=http://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2094034/ill-always-belong-hong-kong-says-freddie-fu-surgeon-who-saved-zlatan|accessdate=26 October 2017|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=12 May 2017}} He was 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. He died due to metastatic melanoma on 24 September 2021.{{cite web| url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2021/09/24/Freddie-Fu-pioneering-orthopaedic-surgeon-dies/stories/202109240155 | access-date=2022-02-09 | date=2021-09-24 | title = Freddie Fu, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, dies | last = Gannon | first = Joyce }}
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 Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity. Dr. 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.{{Cite journal|url=http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/37/12/2309.full|doi = 10.1177/0363546509355303|title = Presidential Address of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine|year = 2009|last1 = Fu|first1 = Freddie H.|journal = The American Journal of Sports Medicine|volume = 37|issue = 12|pages = 2309–2313|pmid = 19940310|s2cid = 27809463}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqic4x2m6TI|title=2011 Diversity Award Winner: Freddie H. Fu, MD|date=14 February 2011|via=YouTube}} In 2012, Fu received the Sports Leadership Award from Dapper Dan Charities, which was subsequently renamed the Freddie Fu Sports Leadership Award and will remain in perpetuity.{{cite news | url=http://post-gazette.com/pg/12073/1216303-50-0.stm | title=Local sports figures honored for dedication and passion|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | first=Shelly | last=Anderson | location=Pittsburgh, PA | date=13 March 2012 | accessdate=13 March 2012}}
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 Carnegie Museum of Natural History and veterinarians at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Additionally, Fu worked 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.{{Cite web|url=http://pittmed.health.pitt.edu/Winter_2009/wobbly_knee.pdf|title=Wobbly Knees|website=pittmed.health.pitt.edu}} Such collaborations allowed for detailed study of evolution and bony and soft tissue anatomy of the knee.
References
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External links
- [http://www.orthonet.pitt.edu/ Orthonet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115225534/http://www.orthonet.pitt.edu/content/DoubleBundle.htm Anatomic Single- and Double-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction Patient Handout 2011]
- [http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/May-2011/Doc-Star-Dr-Freddie-Fu/ Pittsburgh Magazine - May 2011 - Doc Star Freddie Fu]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170926201404/http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416150066 Pitt Magazine - Fall 2010 - Man in Motion]
- [http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/May-2011/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-Dr-Freddie-Fu/ Pittsburgh Magazine - May 2011 - A Day in the Life of Freddie Fu]
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Category:American sports physicians
Category:University of Pittsburgh faculty