Dr. Freddie Fu was an orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered new techniques for more successful ACR repair surgery.Born in Hong Kong, Fu came to the U.S.
at age 18 to study biology and earn his medical degree. He spent his career at the University of Pittsburgh, where he founded the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, the first of its kind in the area.
Frustrated by the tendency for osteoarthritis to develop in the knee a few years after ACL repair surgery, Fu studied knee structure in humans, animals, and even in the fossilized human ancestor skeleton known as Lucy.
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