Michael C. Fu, MD, MHS

Dr. Michael Fu is an orthopedic surgeon and shoulder specialist in the HSS Sports Medicine Institute. He is also an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.

As a shoulder surgery and sports medicine specialist, Dr. Fu's experience across the entire spectrum of shoulder pathology enables comprehensive and longitudinal care for people who have a variety of shoulder conditions. Dr. Fu has extensive experience caring for athletes at all levels, from a young person with shoulder instability to the senior athlete with shoulder arthritis. He has been a team physician for the Chicago Bulls, Chicago White Sox, DePaul University and New York City's PSAL.

In addition to athletic and traumatic shoulder injuries, Dr. Fu also specializes in degenerative shoulder conditions, including rotator cuff tears and shoulder arthritis. He performs multiple types of surgeries, including complex shoulder reconstruction (shoulder replacement). Dr. Fu's focus and expertise in the shoulder provide patients with a full range of operative and non-operative treatment options, biologics, minimally invasive shoulder arthroscopy, and open surgery.

Dr. Fu completed his orthopedic surgery residency at HSS, and his sports medicine and shoulder surgery fellowship training at the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush program in Chicago. In addition to his training in the United States, Dr. Fu has also trained with European experts in shoulder surgery at the Centre Orthopédique Santy in Lyon, France, and the Nice Shoulder Institute in Nice, France.

Dr. Fu studied chemical engineering as an undergraduate at Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He was the recipient of the George Vincent Wendell Memorial Medal at graduation, which is awarded by choice of the graduating class and the faculty to the student who best exemplifies character, scholarship and service. Dr. Fu attended medical school at Yale University, where he completed a combined MD and Master of Health Science (MHS) program focused on clinical outcomes research.

Dr. Fu serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Arthroscopy, and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, the American Journal of Sports Medicine, and the Bone & Joint Journal. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters, and has presented his research at national and international meetings. Dr. Fu was born in British Hong Kong, and grew up in Toronto, Canada.

For more information about Dr. Fu’s practice, including physical therapy protocols, operative instructions, treatment philosophy, and specific shoulder conditions, please visit www.michaelfumd.com.

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Departments

Procedures

Shoulder arthroscopy
Rotator cuff repair
Total shoulder replacement
Reverse total shoulder replacement
Shoulder instability procedures
Shoulder stabilization
Shoulder labral repair
Shoulder Latarjet procedure for instability
Shoulder free bone block procedures for instability
Revision shoulder surgery
Revision shoulder replacement
Complex shoulder reconstruction
Shoulder tendon transfers
Shoulder superior capsular reconstruction
Shoulder biceps tenodesis
Shoulder impingement decompression
Shoulder capsular release for frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
Shoulder superior labrum anterior-posterior (SLAP) repair
Nerve decompressions around the shoulder
Shoulder fracture repair (humerus, glenoid, clavicle, scapula)
Acromioclavicular (AC) joint injuries and reconstruction
Acromioclavicular (AC) joint arthritis surgery
Pectoralis major repairs