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Chukwuma Nnorom

Assoc Professor Term

School of Medicine

Orcid identifier0009-0003-5325-3431
  • Assoc Professor Term
    School of Medicine
  • (502) 852 - 8470 (Work)
  • University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, 571 South Floyd Street Suite 342, Louisville, Kentuckky, 40202, United States

BIO

Dr. Chukwuma Nnorom completed medical school training at the University of Calabar, Nigeria in 2000. In 2005, he relocated to the United States to do his pediatric residency at Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY /NYU and later his Neonatology fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Center, Memphis, TN.  After graduation from fellowship in 2011, he spent 3 years working as a general pediatrician in the medically underserved communities of New Iberia and ST Martinsville, Louisiana. In 2015, he moved with his family to Elizabethtown KY to take a position with the University of Louisville Division Of Neonatology, assisting in the startup of the Hardin Memorial satellite NICU in Elizabethtown.  He is currently the NICU Medical Director of Hardin Memorial Hospital now known as Baptist Health Hardin. His areas of interest include breast feeding in the NICU, community education and reaching out to underserved communities.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Louisville, United StatesJul 2026
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Louisville, United StatesSep 2015 - Jul 2026

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • NICU Medical Director
    Baptist Health Hardin, Birthplace, Elizabethtown, USAFeb 2021
  • Neonatologist
    Norton Children's Medical Group, Division of Neonatology, Louisville, USASep 2015
  • NICU Associate Medical Director
    Baptist Heath Hardin, Birthplace, Elizabethtown, USASep 2015 - Feb 2021
  • Staff Physician
    Dauterive Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, New Iberia, USAJan 2012 - Aug 2015
  • Staff Physician
    Iberia Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, New Iberia, USAOct 2011 - Aug 2015
  • Staff Physician
    Iberia Comprehensive Community Health Center, Department of Pediatrics, New Iberia, United StatesSep 2011 - Aug 2015

DEGREES

  • M.B.B.CH, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
    University of Calabar, Calabar, NigeriaSep 1992 - Jul 2000

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine Fellowship
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Pediatrics, Memphis, United StatesJul 2008 - Jun 2011
    Neonatal - Perinatal MedicinePostdoctoral Fellowship
  • Pediatric Residency
    Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Department of Pediatrics, Brooklyn, United StatesJul 2005 - Jun 2008
    Residency
  • Medical Officer
    General Hospital KaffiMadaki, Bauchi State, NigeriaFeb 2002 - Feb 2003
    Internship
  • House Officer
    University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Surgery/Pediatrics/OB&GYN/Internal Medicine, Calabar, NigeriaJan 2001 - Jan 2002
    Internship