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’s Athletic Department. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Point Park University and an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from Chatham University. Dr. Fu graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1974 and received his BMS in 1975 from Dartmouth Medical School. He earned his medical degree in 1977 at the University of Pittsburgh and completed his general surgery internship at Brown University. 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 Hannover Trauma Center 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 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 member of the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, and Team Physician for Mt. Lebanon High School.

In 2002 he was named an Honorary Professor at Peking University and serves as a consultant for the Li Ka Shing Foundation (Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.) and Shantou University in Shantou, China. The Chinese Hospital Association of San Francisco named him the 2002 Chinese Hospital Physician of the Year. In 2006, Dr. Fu was the first non-German to be given an honorary membership in AGA, the German Arthroscopy Association. Dr. Fu also oversees one of the top and most diversified orthopaedic residency training programs in the country which attracts the best and brightest young surgeons/researchers from the US and abroad.