Prof Frank Chinegwundoh is a Consultant Urological Surgeon. He was appointed as a Consultant to Barts Health NHS Trust and Newham University Hospital NHS Trust in 1996. He is a lecturer at the University of London and in that capacity examines theses for doctoral degrees in urology.
He is an expert in the field of prostate cancer and is invited to speak at international meetings. Prof Chinegwundoh published the first paper in the UK to show that black men in the UK have a three-fold excess risk of developing prostate cancer compared to white men. He has authored numerous publications and book chapters.
Prof Chinegwundoh sits on the Department of Health Prostate Cancer Advisory Group, the Cancer Reform Strategy group, the National Cancer Equalities group and a working party on cancer survivorship. He also sits on the Bowel Cancer Screening Advisory Group. He is the spokesman for the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action. Since 1998 he has chaired the Charity Cancer Black Care. He is a Trustee of the Prostate Cancer Support Federation and was previously a trustee of Prostate Action.
Apart from expertise in prostate cancer therapies he is also able to employ a variety of technologies to deal with the enlarged benign prostate, for example TURP, TURIS, TUNA.
In 2008 he received a National Clinical Excellence Award and in 2013 was awarded an MBE for services to the NHS. In 2010 he graduated with a Master of Medical Law degree from Glasgow University. In 2002 he was appointed a visiting Professor in Urology to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu.
