Benjamin Cullen Kennedy, MD

Independent provider

About me

  • Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

My education and training

  • Medical School: Columbia University
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Spoken languages

English
English

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. Kennedy is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

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: 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: 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: 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): 2026,206


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: 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: 2026


Baumgartner M, Tomlinson SB, Galligan K, Kennedy BC Minimally-Invasive Anterior Skull Base Approaches for Epilepsy in Children , American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting: 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: 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: 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: 2025