Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

fuxxx016@umn.edu
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Dr. Fu is a staff physician in general internal medicine and a core investigator in the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research (a VA HSR&D Center of Excellence) at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Fu is also an assistant professor of medicine and a core investigator in the University of Minnesota's Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC). Before coming to Minnesota, Dr. Fu was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed residency in internal medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Subsequently, he pursued a general internal medicine fellowship and obtained a master of science in clinical epidemiology degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Research Interests

Dr. Fu is a VA Health Services Research Career Development awardee and has expertise in tobacco-related health disparities. His research is focused on identifying best practices for improving the delivery and utilization of tobacco dependence treatments among diverse populations. Currently, Dr. Fu is the principal investigator for a study combining qualitative and quantitative methods to examine ethnic differences in tobacco cessation outcomes and the relation of cultural factors to the use of tobacco treatment among racial/ethnic minority smokers (funded by ClearWay Minnesota). He is also a co-investigator on a TTURC NIH-funded randomized controlled trial that will examine the effects of providing longitudinal smoking cessation treatment compared to discrete (episodic) usual care on smoking abstinence outcomes.

Selected Publications

Fu, SS, Burgess, DJ, van Ryn, M, Hatsukami, DK, Solomon, J, Joseph, AM: Views on smoking cessation methods in ethnic minority communities: A qualitative investigation. Prev Med 2006 Dec 15; (Epub ahead of print)

Burgess, DJ, Fu, SS, Joseph, AM, Hatsukami, DK, Solomon, J, van Ryn, M: Beliefs and experiences regarding smoking cessation among American Indians. Nicotine and Tobacco Research (In Press).

Fu, SS, Partin, MR, Snyder, A, An, LC, Nelson, DB, Clothier, B, Nugent, S, Willenbring, ML, Joseph, AM: Promoting repeat tobacco dependence treatment: Are relapsed smokers interested? American Journal of Managed Care, 12:235-243, 2006.

Fu, SS, Sherman, SE, Yano, EM, van Ryn, M, Lanto, AB, Joseph, AM: Ethnic disparities in the use of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in an equal access health care system. American Journal of Health Promotion, 20:108-116, 2005.

Sherman, SE, Fu, SS, Joseph, AM, Lanto, AB, Yano, EM: Gender differences in smoking cessation services received among veterans. Women's Health Issues, 15:126-33, 2005.

Jonk, Y., Sherman, SE., Fu, SS, Hamlet-Berry, K, Geraci, MC, Joseph, AM: National trends in the provision of smoking cessation aids within the Veterans Health Administration. American Journal of Managed Care 11:77-85, 2005.

Burgess, DJ, Fu, SS, van Ryn, M: Why do providers contribute to disparities and what can be done about it? Journal of General Internal Medicine 19:1154-1159, 2004.

van Ryn, M. and Fu, SS: Paved with good intentions: The provider contribution to disparities in care. American Journal of Public Health 93(2):58-65, 2003.

Fu, SS, Ma, GX, Siu, PT, Tu, XM, Metlay, JP: Cigarette smoking among Chinese Americans and the influence of linguistic acculturation. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 5(6):803-11, 2003.