Attending Surgeon
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Surgery
University at Buffalo
School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Chukwumere E. Nwogu joined the staff of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in 1999, as Attending Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery. He also is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

He earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at the University of Nigeria in 1987. Following residency training in General Surgery at Flushing Hospital-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY (1995), and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester (1998), Dr. Nwogu completed fellowship training in General Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA (1999).

Dr. Nwogu is licensed by New York State and Massachusetts, and is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (1999).

His research interests focus on the lymphatic spread of lung and esophageal cancer; thoracoscopic and laparoscopic minimally-invasive esophageal and lung surgery.

He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of numerous professional organizations including, among others, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the General Thoracic Surgery Club, the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Cancer and Leukemia Group B.

Dr Nwogu has authored or co-authored several journal publications and is the principal investigator on several Roswell Park Cancer Institute research protocols.

Key Publications

• Nwogu CE, Kanter PM, Anderson TM: Pulmonary Lymphatic Mapping in Dogs – Use of Technetium Sulfur Colloid and Isosulfan Blue for Pulmonary Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Dogs. Cancer Investigation 20(8):944-947, 2002.
• Demmy TL, Plante A«, Nwogu CE, Takita H, Anderson TM.: Discharge Independence with Minimally Invasive Lobectomy. American Journal of Surgery:188:698-702, 2004.
• Nwogu CE, Hill HC«, Tan DF, Demmy TL, Takita H, Anderson TM: Localized Fibrous Tumors of the Pleura. Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, 12(1): 42-45, 2005.
• Demmy TL, Sussman M, Nwogu CE: Brief Communication “Triangular Retractor Facilitates Minimally Invasive Lobectomy”. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 129(6):1454-1455, 2005.
• Ramnath N, Sommers E, Robinson L, Nwogu C, Sharma A, Cantor A, Bepler G: Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Gemcitabine and Vinorelbine in Resectable Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Chest 128(5):3467-74, 2005.
• Javle M, Nwogu C, Donohue K, Iyer R, Brady W, Khemka S, Smith J, Demmy T, Yang G, Nava H: Management of Locoregional Stage Esophageal Cancer: A Single Center Experience. Diseases of the Esophagus 19:78-83, 2006.
• Nwogu C, Glinianski« M, Demmy T: Minimally Invasive Pneumonectomy. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 82(1):e3 – 4, 2006
• Nwogu C, Fischer G«, Tan DF, Glinianski M«, Lamonica D, Demmy T: Radioguided Detection of Lymph Node Metastasis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 82(5):1815-1820, 2006.
• Ramnath N, Demmy T, Antun A, Natarajan N, Nwogu CE, Loewen G, Reid ME. Pneumonectomy for Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Analysis of Factors Predicting Survival. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 83(5):1831-6, 2007.
• Gibbs JF, Rajput A, Chadha KS, Douglas WG, Hill H, Nwogu CE, Nava HR, Sabel MS. The Changing Profile of Esophageal Cancer Presentation and its Implication for Diagnosis. Journal of National Medical Association 99(6): 620-626, 2007.