Community Activity
Dr. Fu is very active in the Pittsburgh community and promotes the Pittsburgh region at every opportunity. He has served as Chairman of the Board and Executive Medical Director of the Pittsburgh Marathon; Company Physician and member of the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Western Pennsylvania; and Team Physician for Mt. Lebanon High School. He is the past president of the Children’s Festival Chorus, a member of the Western Pennsylvania Olympic Committee, an honorary board member of the Parental Stress Center, and the 2002 President of Dapper Dan Charities. He received the Pittsburgh Man of the Year in Sciences Award in 1990 and in 2004 was named Vectors/Pittsburgh Man of the Year for Community Service. In 1993, Dr. Fu was voted “Best Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Physician” by Pittsburgh Magazine. He was selected through a nationwide poll of leading physicians in the Best Doctors in America for Orthopaedic Surgery with special emphasis on Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy. In 1996 Dr. Fu was singled out for excellence in clinical practice in the field of Sports Medicine/Arthroscopy and was featured as “Top Doc” on the cover of Pittsburgh Magazine. Three years later, he was listed as No. 47 of the top "100 Pittsburghers of the Century" by Pittsburgh Magazine. Other Pittsburghers included Andrew Carnegie (No. 3), George Westinghouse (No. 5), Dr. Jonas Salk (No. 9) and Dr. Thomas Starzl (No. 13). In 2007, Dr. Fu was honored with the History Makers Award in the field of Medicine and Health by the Heinz History Center.
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