Benjamin C Kennedy, MD
Associate 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 skull base approaches, stereo-EEG (sEEG), hemispherotomy, responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation, laser ablation, corpus callosotomy, hypothalamic hamartomas.
- Spasticity surgery, including selective dorsal rhizotomy and baclofen pump placement.
- Dystonia surgery, including deep brain stimulation, and emerging indications.
- Brain tumors.
Description of Research Expertise
Research interests include epilepsy genetics, epilepsy surgery, emerging indications for neuromodulation, epilepsy networks, brain tumors.Selected Publications
Habib E Akouri, Samuel B Tomlinson, Kevin Wojcik, Nankee K Kumar, Kathleen Galligan, Sudha K Kessler, Benjamin C Kennedy: Hemispherotomy for Pediatric Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. Brain Sci Jun 2026.Ellie D. Gabriel, Nankee K. Kumar, Kumaran Senthil, Claudia Hejazi-Garcia, Clara Wang, Ayush Lacoul, Vanessa Mazandi, Mix Wannasarnmetha, Aashim Bhatia, Alexander M. Tucker, Phillip B. Storm, Tracy M. Flanders, Gregory G. Heuer, Benjamin C. Kennedy, Matthew Kirschen, Alexis Topjian, Conall Francoeur, Ian Yuan, Chong Tae Kim, Todd J. Kilbaugh, Jimmy W. Huh, and Shih-Shan Lang: Correlation of noninvasive near-infrared spectroscopy with outcomes in pediatric traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurg Pediatr Jun 2026.
Patrick Davis, Samuel B Tomlinson, Caren Armstrong, Erin C Conrad, William K S Ojemann, Jurriaan Peters, Brian Litt, Carley Gilman, Benjamin C Kennedy, Eric D Marsh: Cortical stimulation reveals effective disconnection of the epileptogenic network at seizure onset. Epilepsia Jun 2026.
Rakesh Murugesan, Samuel B. Tomlinson, Susan E. Melamed, Kathleen Galligan, Benjamin C. Kennedy: Early Reduction in Unplanned Healthcare Utilization Following Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Pediatric Epilepsy. Childs Nerv Syst 8(42): 206, May 2026.
Armstrong C, Tomlinson SB, Davis P, Ojemann W, Kilaru Kessler S, Kennedy BC, Conrad EC, Marsh ED: Low Frequency Stimulation and Seizure Induction in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Drug Resistant Epilepsy Undergoing Stereoelectroencephalography. J Clin Neurophysiol Mar 2026.
William K S Ojemann, Daniel J Zhou, Catherine V Kulick-Soper, Jacob Korzun, Joshua J LaRocque, Caren Armstrong, Benjamin C Kennedy, Sudha K Kessler, Eric Marsh, Nishant Sinha, Brian Litt, Erin Conrad: 42352666Multi-expert consensus annotations of spontaneous and stimulation-induced seizures in stereotactic EEG. medRxiv Jan 2026.
Baumgartner M, Tomlinson SB, Galligan K, Kennedy BC: Minimally-Invasive Anterior Skull Base Approaches for Epilepsy in Children. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting Dec 2025.
Tomlinson SB, Davis P, Armstrong C, Kennedy BC, Marsh ED. : Exogenous activation of interictal spike networks via single-pulse electrical stimulation in children. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting Dec 2025.
Michaela A. Stamm, Jack O’Keefe Donohue, Alyssa Ailion, Jurriaan Peters, Dana Martino, Giovana Stefanini, Melissa Chua, Won Seok Chang, Heung Dong Kim, Seung Woo Hong, Jinu Rim, Diwas Gautam, Shervin Rahimpour, Jasmine Hect, Emily Hartford, Taylor Abel, Jonathan Roth, Vanessa Colares, Arthur Cukiert, Megan Votoupal, Sandi Lam, Sarah Ferrand Sorbets, Shaimae Afifi, Jignesh Tailor, Rupa Radhakrishnan, Alexander Weil, Emma Macdonald-Laurs, Kenneth Myers, Mustafa Motiwala, Alister Virkler, Shanique Doyle, Benjamin Kennedy, Chien Chen, Lily Wong-Kisiel, Aaron E.L. Warren, John D. Rolston: The multi-center callosotomy outcomes registry (M-CORE). American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting Dec 2025.
Daan A. Pijs, Ellen C. Broekhuizen, Ivan Sanchez Fernandez, Gillian N. Miller, Mattheus D. Soldatelli, Simon K. Warfield, Mustafa Sahin, Catherine J. Chu, Elizabeth A Kinard, Martina Bebin, Ismail Mohamed, Rohini Coorg, Anne Anderson, Stephanie C. Randle, Murat Oztek, Katherine S. Taub, Benjamin C. Kennedy, Sarah Weatherspoon, Nir Shimony, Rajsekar R. Rajaraman, Joyce Y. Wu, Darcy A. Krueger, Hope Northrup, Jeffrey P. Blount, Aria Fallah, Scellig Stone, Howard Weiner, Jurriaan M. Peters; TACERN Study Group: Multicenter Study of Epilepsy Surgery in Pediatric Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Does Technique Impact Outcome? American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting Dec 2025.