Njira Lucia Lugogo, MD

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Department / Division:
Medicine / Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care

Address:
Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center
4309 Medical Park Drive, Suite 100
Durham, NC 27704

Appointment Telephone:
919-620-7300

Office Telephone:
919-620-7300

Fax Telephone:
919-471-5374

• MD, Medical College of Virginia, VCU, School of Medicine, 2001

• Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, 2001-2004

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2004-2007

Clinical Interests:
General pulmonary medicine with a specific focus on asthma, allergic airway disease, sarcoidosis, bronchiectasis and COPD; diagnosis and management of obesity related lung disease; research focus on the mechanisms by which obesity affects asthma severity and quality of life; clinical research in asthma

Research Interests:
My research focus is asthma.  I perform clinical trials in asthma as part of the NIH sponsored Asthma Clinical Research Network.  I am specifically interested in the role of adipokines (hormones of obesity) on airway inflammation in asthma.  I am conducting a clinical research study to determine if the airway inflammation in obese asthmatics is altered by weight loss via gastric bypass surgery.

Representative Publications:
Lugogo NL, Ginsburg GS, Que LG. Genetic profiling and tailored therapy in asthma: Are we there yet?  Curr Opin Mol Ther.  2007 Dec;9(6):528-37. (2007) Abstract

Lugogo NL, Kraft M. Epidemiology of asthma.  Clin Chest Med.  2006 Mar;27(1):1-15, v. (2006) Abstract