James Baumgartner, MD
Medical Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Pediatrics

Overview
James Baumgartner, MD, is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon with more than two decades of experience providing minimally invasive surgical procedures to help children who experience seizures associated with epilepsy or other neurosurgical disorders. He consults with patients and their parents at AdventHealth Medical Group’s neurosurgery practice next to AdventHealth Orlando and is the Surgical Director of AdventHealth for Children’s Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center. Dr. Baumgartner is an eminently qualified physician whose outstanding credentials include his post-graduate degree in pharmacology from Cambridge University in England, his medical degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his neurosurgical residency and pediatric neurosurgery fellowship training at the University of California - San Francisco.
Articles
Intracranial EEG and laser interstitial thermal therapy in MRI-negative insular and/or cingulate epilepsy: case series
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
2021
Progenitor cell therapy for acquired pediatric nervous system injury: Traumatic brain injury and acquired sensorineural hearing loss
STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
2020
Deep Learning Provides Exceptional Accuracy to ECoG-Based Functional Language Mapping for Epilepsy Surgery
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
2020
Altered integrity of corpus callosum in generalized epilepsy in relation to seizure lateralization after corpus callosotomy
NEUROSURGICAL FOCUS
2020
A prospective multicenter study of laser ablation for drug resistant epilepsy - One year outcomes
EPILEPSY RESEARCH
2020
Laser Ablation of Abnormal Neurological Tissue Using Robotic NeuroBlate System (LAANTERN ): 12-Month Outcomes and Quality of Life After Brain Tumor Ablation
NEUROSURGERY
2020
Epilepsy Surgery in Children versus Adults
JOURNAL OF KOREAN NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY
2019
Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children
JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY AND OTOLOGY
2018
Usefulness of intraoperative insular electrocorticography in modified functional hemispherectomy
BMC NEUROLOGY
2017
Technical descriptions of four hemispherectomy approaches: From the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Meeting at Gothenburg 2014
EPILEPSIA
2017
Education & Training
Education
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Residency
University of California - San Francisco - School of Medicine
Fellowship
University of California - San Francisco
Specialty
Neurosurgery; Pediatric Neurosurgery
Board Certifications
American Board of Neurological Surgery