Benjamin C Kennedy, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Neurosurgeon, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Neurosurgeon, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Neurosurgeon, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Neurosurgeon, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Neurosurgery
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
6th Floor, Wood Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
6th Floor, Wood Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-2780
Email:
kennedybc@email.chop.edu
kennedybc@email.chop.edu
Education:
BA
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, 2003.
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - New York, NY, 2009.
Permanent linkBA
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, 2003.
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - New York, NY, 2009.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Clinical expertise includes- Epilepsy surgery, including stereo-EEG (sEEG), hemispherotomy, responsive neurostimulation (Neuropace), laser ablation, corpus callosotomy, hypothalamic hamartomas, and vagal nerve stimulators.
- Spasticity surgery, including selective dorsal rhizotomy and baclofen pump placement.
- Dystonia surgery, including deep brain stimulation.
- Brain and spine tumors.
- Chiari malformation.
- Tethered spinal cord and other dysraphism.
Description of Research Expertise
Research interests include epilepsy genetics, epilepsy surgery, stereo-EEG (sEEG), brain-machine interface, Chiari malformation, brain tumors.Selected Publications
Tomlinson SB, Davis P, Armstrong C, Whitney R, Kennedy BC, Marsh ED: Hypersynchronous Epileptic Network Activity Revealed by Interictal Spike Propagation and Cortico-cortical Evoked Potentials. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting Apr 2025 Notes: Poster presentation.Singh S, Armstrong C, Melamed S, Galligan K, Han M, DiGiovine M, Kessler SK, Kennedy BC: Safety Profile of Intracranial Neuromodulation for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Children. J Neurosurg Pediatr 71(Supplement_1): 183, Apr 2025.
Murugesan R, Kennedy BC: Surgical Complications and Admission Rates After Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Children. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting Apr 2025 Notes: Poster presentation.
Baumgartner M, Galligan K, Flanders T, Madsen P, Tucker AM, Kennedy BC: Burr Hole Hemispherotomy: Case Series. Oper Neurosurg Page: 10.1227/ons.0000000000001527, Mar 2025.
Ziechmann R, Galligan K, Digiovine M, Marsh ED, Kennedy BC: Multiple subpial transections with concomitant responsive neurostimulation of the insula: illustrative case. J Neurosurg Case Lessons 9(13): CASE24445, Mar 2025.
Baumgartner M, Galligan K, Baumgartner J, Kessler SK, Kennedy BC: Salvage Trans-Sylvian Peri-Insular Hemispherotomy After Embolic Hemispherectomy. Ann Child Neurol Soc 2025: 1-5, Feb 2025.
Baumgartner ME, Tomlinson SB, Galligan K, Kennedy BC: Motor Outcome After Posterior Insular Resection for Pediatric Epilepsy. Brain Sci 15(2): 177, Feb 2025.
Yusha Sun , Xin Wang , Daniel Zhang , Zhijian Zhang , Janardhan Bhattarai , Yingqi Wang , Kristen Park , Weifan Dong , Qian Yang , Feng Zhang , Yan Hong , Keerthi Rajamani , Shang Mu , Benjamin Kennedy , Jamie Galanaugh , Abhijeet Sambangi , Sang Hoon Kim , Garrett Wheeler , J. Tiago Goncalves , Qing Wang , Daniel Geschwind , Riki Kawaguchi , Angela Viaene , Ingo Helbig , Sudha Kessler , Ahmet Hoke , Huadong Wang , Fuqiang Xu , Zev Binder , Issac Chen , Emily Pai , Sara Stone , MacLean Nasrallah , Kimberly Christian , Marc Fuccillo , Nicolas Toni , Zhuhao Wu , Donald O’Rourke , Minghong Ma , Yun-Feng Hung , Hwai-Jong Cheng , Guo-li Ming, Hongjun Song: Brain-wide neuronal circuit connectome of human glioblastoma. Nature Page: 1-41, Jan 2025 Notes: [Online]
Kundishora AJ, Reeves BC, Lerner DK, Storm PB, Prelack MS, Palmer JN, Adappa ND, Kennedy BC: Endoscopic endonasal resection of olfactory tract hamartoma for pediatric epilepsy. Childs Nerv Syst 40(12): 3915-3921, Dec 2024.
Salwi SR, Punchak MA, Land SD, Gallagher T, Reynolds TA, Lang SS, Kennedy BC, Tucker AM, Madsen, PJ, Heuer GG, Flanders TM: Outcomes after Simple Tethered Cord Release for Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Patients. AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery Annual Meeting, New York, NY Dec 2024 Notes: Poster Presentation.