Benjamin C Kennedy, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Neurosurgeon, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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
Travis S. CreveCoeur MD, Rajiv R. Iyer MD, Hannah E. Goldstein MD, Mychael Delgardo B.S, Todd C Hankinson MD, Mark A. Erickson MD, David L Skaggs MD, Lindsay Andras MD, Benjamin Kennedy MD, Patrick J. Cahill MD, Lawrence G. Lenke MD, Peter D. Angevine MD, Benjamin D. Roye MD, Michael G. Vitale MD, Anil Mendiratta MD, and Richard C.E. Anderson MD: Timing of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) recovery and clinical recovery after termination of pediatric spinal deformity surgery due to loss of IONM signals: When is it safe to return to the operating room? Spine J 2024 (accepted).Michael E. Baumgartner, PhD, Kathleen Galligan, MS, PA-C, and Benjamin C. Kennedy, MD: Advanced Approaches in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery. Curr Prob Pediatr Ad 2024 (accepted).
Michael E. Baumgartner, PhD, Liming Qiu, MD, Lucas R. Philipp MD, MPH, Kathleen Galligan, MS, PA-C, Casey Halpern, MD, and Benjamin C. Kennedy, MD: Technological Advances in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery. Curr Prob Pediatr Ad 2024 (accepted).
Baumgartner ME, Flanders TM, Madsen PJ, Tucker AM, Fung F, Kennedy BC: Burr Hole Hemispherotomy-Modification of Trans-Sylvian Peri-Insular Technique: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg Jan 2024.
Kumar, N. K., Bach, A. M., Zarnow, D. M., Desai, K., Kennedy, B. C., & Agarwal, S.: Toe walking in a formerly preterm child: Is it just cerebral palsy? J. Pediatr Neurol 2023 (accepted).
Baumgartner ME, Lang SS, Tucker AM, Madsen PJ, Storm PB, Kennedy BC: Systematic review and cumulative analysis of clinical properties of BRAF V600E mutations in PLNTY histological samples. Childs Nerv Syst Dec 2023.
Anne M. Coyle, Erin K. M. Graves, Shih-Shan Lang, Benjamin C. Kennedy, Tracy M. Flanders, Alexander M. Tucker, Phillip B. Storm, Anne Marie Cahill, Bryan A. Pukenas, and Peter J. Madsen,: Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization in the Management of Subdural Hematoma in Medically Complex Pediatric Neurosurgical Patients: A Technical Note. J Neurosurg Ped Sep 2023.
Lucas Phillip, Benjamin C. Kennedy: The Wild West of Pediatric Epilepsy—Thalamic Stimulation. World Neurosurg Jul 2023.
Elsa V Arocho-Quinones, Sean M Lew, Michael H Handler, Zulma Tovar-Spinoza, Matthew D Smyth, Robert J Bollo, David Donahue, M Scott Perry, Michael Levy, David Gonda, Francesco T Mangano, Benjamin C Kennedy, Phillip B Storm, Angela V Price, Daniel E Couture, Chima Oluigbo, Ann-Christine Duhaime, Gene H Barnett, Carrie R Muh, Michael D Sather, Aria Fallah, Anthony C Wang, Sanjiv Bhatia, Daniel Eastwood, Sergey Tarima, Sarah Graber, Sean Huckins, Daniel Hafez, Kavelin Rumalla, Laurie Bailey, Sabrina Shandley, Ashton Roach, Erin Alexander, Wendy Jenkins, Deki Tsering, George Price, Antonio Meola, Wendi Evanoff, Eric M Thompson, Nicholas Brandmeir; Pediatric Stereotactic Laser Ablation Workgroup: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided stereotactic laser ablation therapy for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy: a retrospective multiinstitutional study. J Neurosurg Pediatr Mar 2023.
Changuk Chung, Xiaoxu Yang, Taejeong Bae, Keng Ioi Vong, Swapnil Mittal, Catharina Donkels, H Westley Phillips, Zhen Li, Ashley P L Marsh, Martin W Breuss, Laurel L Ball, Camila Araújo Bernardino Garcia, Renee D George, Jing Gu, Mingchu Xu, Chelsea Barrows, Kiely N James, Valentina Stanley, Anna S Nidhiry, Sami Khoury, Gabrielle Howe, Emily Riley, Xin Xu, Brett Copeland, Yifan Wang, Se Hoon Kim, Hoon-Chul Kang, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Carola A Haas, Horst Urbach, Marco Prinz, David D Limbrick Jr, Christina A Gurnett, Matthew D Smyth, Shifteh Sattar, Mark Nespeca, David D Gonda, Katsumi Imai, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Hsin-Hung Chen, Jin-Wu Tsai, Valerio Conti, Renzo Guerrini, Orrin Devinsky, Wilson A Silva Jr, Helio R Machado, Gary W Mathern, Alexej Abyzov, Sara Baldassari, Stéphanie Baulac; Focal Cortical Dysplasia Neurogenetics Consortium; Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network; Joseph G Gleeson: Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development. Nat Genet Feb 2023.