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Steven Fu, MD, MSCE
Steven Fu, MD, MSCE
Minneapolis VAMC
Minneapolis, MN
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Dr. Fu was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his MD degree in 1996 at Jefferson Medical College, and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia in 1999. He subsequently pursued a General Internal Medicine Fellowship and obtained a Master's of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 2001, he moved to Minneapolis and 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 VAMC. Dr. Fu is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Fu is interested in improving smoking cessation among racial/ethnic minority smokers. His current research interests are focused on improving the treatment of tobacco dependence among racial/ethnic minorities and addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health care. Dr. Fu's earlier work in this area demonstrated an association between lower acculturation and smoking behavior among Chinese men. These findings were reported in a recent publication "Cigarette smoking among Chinese Americans and the influence of linguistic acculturation" in the December 2003 issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Dr. Fu's HSR&D Research Career Development Award will enable him to advance and expand his work on the effect of race/ethnicity on smoking cessation. He will conduct a mentored research program that will investigate factors associated with successful smoking cessation by racial/ethnic minority veteran smokers and examine many of the potential mechanisms underlying racial/ethnic differences in tobacco use and cessation.
Dr. Fu's mentors are Anne M. Joseph, MD, MPH, a national expert in the treatment of tobacco dependence, and Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH, a national expert in racial/ethnic health disparities with expertise in the influence of psychosocial factors on health.
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