About me

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

My education and training

Columbia UniversityMedical School
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical CenterResidency
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaFellowship

Spoken languages

English

Insurance accepted

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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Pennsylvania Hospital: 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

Tenhoeve, Samuel; Warsi, Nebras M.; Ludwick, Allison M.; Glaser, Adam C.; Ruppert-Gomez, Marcella R.; Stone, Scellig; Votoupal, Megan; Raskin, Jeffrey; Doyle, Shanique; Kennedy, Benjamin; Grenard, Deborah ; Nistal, Dominic; Goldstein, Hannah; Hauptman, Jason S.; Yoon, Gavin; Auguste, Kurtis; Gonda, David; Kashanian, Alon; Rodgers, Shaun; Coble, Janette; Roland, Jarod; Wittayanakorn, Nunthasiri; Oluigbo, Chima; Das, Somnath; Thum, Jasmine A.; Gorodetsky, Carolina; Huynh, MyLoi; Ibrahim, George; Bollo, Robert Comparative Multicenter Evaluation of Thalamic Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy in Children (CENTRE) , Epilepsia: 2026

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

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

Patrick Davis, Samuel B. Tomlinson, Caren Armstrong, Benjamin C. Kennedy, Eric D. Marsh A Novel Method of Characterizing Seizure Onset Using Dynamic Response to Direct Electrical Stimulation , American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting: 2025

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

Benjamin Cullen Kennedy, MD