Education
Dr. Fu attended St. Paul’s College, the oldest secondary school in Hong Kong with a mission of bringing together the cultures of the East and West. The Year 2011 marked the 160th anniversary of the founding of St. Paul’s. Famous alumni of St. Paul’s include I. M. Pei, the internationally renowned architect whose important works include Le Louvre Pyramid and the JFK Presidential Library and Museum; and famous journalist, Ching Cheong. Dr. Fu was the Second Predect of the class of 1969, while Ching was Head Prefect. In 2006 while serving as chief China correspondent for the Singaporean newspaper, The Straits Times, Ching was detained for 1,000 days under suspicion of espionage. Journalists, Chinese patriots, and human rights advocates from around the world called for his release saying that the charges were groundless.
In 1969 Freddie was captain of St. Paul’s championship A Grade basketball team coached by Kenneth Ng. Dr. Fu also played lead guitar for a rock and roll band he started at St. Paul's.
At St. Paul's, Dr. Fu was guided by his mentors Geoffrey Emerson, Derek Too, and Frank Drake. In 1970, he followed his older brother and enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire. He received his bachelor of science degree and graduated summa cum laude in 1974 and his BMS degree in 1975. His mentors at Dartmouth were Roy Foster and John George Kemeny, a computer scientist and President of Dartmouth, who taught Dr. Fu freshman calculus. At the suggestion of Dr. Jim Strickler, Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and a Pittsburgh native, he applied to Pitt Medical School where Dartmouth alumnus, leader, and, visionary, Dr. Albert B. Ferguson, Jr., was Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery. He enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and received his MD degree in 1977. He completed his orthopaedic residency under the mentorship of Dr. Ferguson joining the Pitt faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1982. He continues to have a strong connection with Dartmouth as a frequent visitor, homeowner, and member of the Dartmouth Medical School’s Board of Overseers. Both of his children, Gordon and Joyce, are Dartmouth alumni. Each year Dr. Fu hosts a reception for approximately 100 incoming Dartmouth freshmen and alumni from the Western Pennsylvania area.
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