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James Baumgartner, MD

James Baumgartner, MD

Medical Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Pediatrics

James Baumgartner

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

Efficacy of laser interstitial thermal therapy for biopsy-proven radiation necrosis in radiographically recurrent brain metastases

NEURO-ONCOLOGY ADVANCES

2023

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

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