John C. Kucharczuk, MD

Thoracic Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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About me

  • Director, Thoracic Oncology Network, Abramson Cancer Center
  • Director, Integrated Thoracic Oncology Program
  • Carole and Stuart Potter Associate Professor in BRCA Clinical Care

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

1128 reviews

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Anonymous
May 2026
took time and was trustworthy and a great calm disposition
Anonymous
May 2026
willingness to see me quickly and to thoroughly talk through my situation.
Anonymous
May 2026
dr kucharczuk always explains the results clearly and is always pleasant.
Anonymous
May 2026
he is theoretically in explaining everything necessary for my health

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kucharczuk is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Kucharczuk JC, Kaiser LR Bronchoplastic procedures , Robb & Smith's Operative Cardiac Surgery, Seventh Edition: 2025 (in press)

Kucharczuk JC, Kaiser LR Flexible and rigid bronchoscopy , Robb & Smith's Operative Cardiac Surgery, Seventh Edition: 2025 (in press)

Wang W, Scholes D, Roy M, Singhal S, Kucharczuk J, Jarrar D, Predina J, Pechet T, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Aggarwal C, Marmarelis ME EMBER-Lung: Electronic medical record boosting molecular testing in early stage NSCLC , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 43(16 Suppl): 2025

Krupp K, Leung G, Simon C, Kucharczuk J, Predina J, Hashimoto DA Per oral transthoracic rendezvous for endoscopic closure of persistent gastropleural fistula that failed surgical management , VideoGIE, 10(5 Suppl): 2025,S5

Soegaard Ballester JM, Kucharczuk JC Esophageal-pericardial and esophageal-atrial fistulae , Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 34(4): 2024,395-403

Bou-Samra P, Chang A, Guo E, Azari F, Kennedy G, Din A, Pechet T, Jarrar D, Kucharczuk J, Predina J, Delikatny J, Low PS, Singhal S Histology and lung nodule fluorescence in intraoperative molecular imaging with pafolacianine , Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports, 2(3): 2024,432-437

Simone CB, Yegya-Raman N, Manjunath S, Verma V, Shabason JE, Xu L, Cengel KA, Levin WP, Berman AT, Christodouleas JP, Aggarwal C, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Pechet TT, Singal S, Kucharczuk JC, Rengan R, Feigenberg SJ Prospective feasibility and phase I/II trial of preoperative proton beam therapy with concurrent chemotherapy for resectable stage IIIA or superior sulcus non-small cell lung cancer , International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 117(3): 2023,683-689

Azari F, Kennedy G, Bou-Samra P, Din A, Zhang K, Chang A, Ibrahimli A, Galandarova A, Kucharczuk J, Singhal S First in human prospective validation of intraoperative artificial intelligence guided diagnosis of indeterminate lung nodules , Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 18(11 Suppl): 2023,S137

Kennedy GT, Azari FS, Chang A, Chang A, Bou-Samra P, Desphande C, Delikatny EJ, Eruslanov E, Kucharczuk JC, Rice DC, Singhal S A pH-activatable nanoprobe labels diverse histologic subtypes of human lung cancer during resection , Molecular Imaging & Biology, 25(5): 2023,824-832

Azari F, Kennedy GT, Chang A, Bernstein E, Nadeem B, Pèlegrin A, Cailler F, Sullivan NT, Kucharczuk J, Singhal S Glycoprotein receptor CEACAM5-targeted intraoperative molecular imaging tracer in non-small cell lung cancer , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 116(3): 2023,631-641