Interests and Personal Life
Fu's interests include vinyl phonograph records, particularly the music and songs of the 60s including “Mamma Mia”, and “Jersey Boys”. He is involved in the Pittsburgh cycling community with the UPMC Cycling Team and Team Freddie Fu. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Magazine restaurant review panel, and LuLu's Noodles, a Chinese restaurant on the Pitt campus, has a noodle dish named after him ("The Dr. Fu Special").
In 2007, Dr. Fu visited South Africa to lecture on the anatomically correct tunnel position in double-bundle ACL reconstruction. A local Durban band called “The Spare Keys” wrote and recorded “The Double Bundle Song”.
Fu is married to Hilda Pang Fu, a graduate of St. Stephen’s Girls’ School and Hong Kong University. Hilda holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Public Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a porcelain painter as well as founder and president of Luminari, a Pittsburgh based non-profit formed to broaden minds and inspire innovation. She has served as Director of External Relations of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Executive Director of Summer Programs at Point Park University, founding Director of the Pittsburgh Regional Champions, creator of the Pittsburgh Regional Brag Book and former chairwoman of the board of Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and founding board member of ToonSeum. Freddie and Hilda have two children and three grandchildren.
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