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2015 ISAKOS CONGRESS WRAP UP
ISAKOS
Honorary
Members
Honorary Membership is the highest honor awarded to an ISAKOS Member who has demonstrated outstanding or exemplary leadership in the specialties of arthroscopy, knee surgery, and orthopaedic sports medicine. We congratulate the ISAKOS Honorary Member recipients for 2015!
Dr. Fu is a preeminent leader in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine across the world. As former ISAKOS President, Dr. John Bergfeld stated, “One cannot go anywhere in the world without feeling the influence of Freddie Fu... In his unique way, Dr. Fu epitomizes the word ‘diversity.’”
As one of the first Asian orthopaedic residents at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Fu has lived the meaning of diversity. When he helped found the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) sports medicine program, the program hosted a diverse group of fellows from within the United States as well as participants from all over the world, including Europe, Asia, and South America. After serving on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine since 1982, Dr. Fu was appointed in 1998 the David Silver Professor and Chairman of the Orthopaedic Department. In 2010, he was appointed as the eighth Distinguished Service Professor, the highest honor that the University can accord a senior faculty member.
Dr. Fu was born in Hong Kong and his family ancestry has been traced back for 27 generations through middle to southern China. 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. He was the captain of the basketball team and also played lead guitar for a rock and roll band he started at St. Paul’s.
Dr. Fu is an active academic, and has held many offices in various orthopaedics and sports medicine organizations including the Herodicus Society, American Orthopaedic Association, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) and ACL Study Group. In 2008 was President of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society and served as President of AOSSM from 2008–2009.
Dr. Fu has served ISAKOS in a variety of ways, and was ISAKOS President from 2009 through 2011.
In 2011, Dr. Fu received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery Diversity Award, an award intended for those surgeons who have distinguished themselves through outstanding commitment to making orthopaedics more representative of and accessible to diverse patient populations.
Best known for his work with the ACL, Dr. Fu has pioneered numerous innovative arthroscopic surgical techniques to treat injuries to the knee mainly in ACL from the anatomy to the surgical techniques. Dr. Fu is one of the most popular leaders in our field and helped form the careers of a large number of leaders worldwide. Dr. Fu is an avid photographer, bicyclist, restaurant aficionado, dedicated husband, father and grandfather.
An ISAKOS Member since 2001, Dr. Pau Golanó was a great surgeon and friend to many. Dr. Golanó was a professor of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Barcelona, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His exceptional anatomical dissection skills and passion for education was quickly recognized by the orthopaedic surgeons surrounding him. His skills were recognized worldwide and he quickly became the leading expert on orthopaedic anatomy of the last decade.
He devoted his career and life to the education of orthopaedic surgeons, making them better doctors by teaching anatomy in the finest details. Dr. Golanó leaves behind a legacy with his exceptional anatomical dissection skills and passion for education. His contributions involved a broad spectrum like Shoulder, Hip, Knee and Ankle. He was a teacher for orthopaedic surgeons around the world.
Freddie H. Fu, MD, USA
Presented by: Moises Cohen, MD, PhD, Prof., BRAZIL
Pau Golanó, MD, SPAIN
Presented by C. Niek van Dijk, MD, PhD, NETHERLANDS
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