Investigator

Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research (CCDOR) Veterans Affairs Medical Center (152/2E)
One Veterans Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: 612-725-1979
Fax: 612-467-5699
VA email: Steven.Fu@va.gov
University email: fuxxx016@umn.edu

Steven S. Fu, MD, MSCE is a staff physician in General Internal Medicine and a core investigator in the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research (a VA Health Services Research and Development 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 medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Subsequently, he pursued a General Internal Medicine Fellowship and obtained a Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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 MN). 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 Recent Publications

1. Fu SS, Burgess DJ, van Ryn M, Hatsukami DK, et al. Views on smoking cessation methods in ethnic minority communities: A qualitative investigation. Preventive Medicine (in press).


2. Burgess DJ, Fu SS, Joseph AM, Hatsukami DK, et al. Beliefs and experiences regarding smoking cessation among American Indians. Nicotine and Tobacco Research (in press).


3. Fu SS, Partin MR, Snyder A, An LC, et al. Promoting repeat tobacco dependence treatment: Are relapsed smokers interested? American Journal of Managed Care 2006;12:235-243.


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


5. Sherman SE, Fu SS, Joseph AM, Lanto AB, et al. Gender differences in smoking cessation services received among veterans. Women’s Health Issues 2005;15:126-33.


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


7. 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 2004;19:1154-1159.


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


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