Area's 1st pediatric neurosurgeon named

Although he's only worked at the Children's Hospital at Strong for a few months, he has already given hope to countless kids who used to travel out of town to get needed medical treatment. Campbell came to Rochester after completing a fellowship at the Children's Hospital in Boston where he worked with some of the most prominent pediatric neurosurgeons in the country.

He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and completed his internship in general surgery and his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In addition to maintaining an active patient care practice, Campbell has been named to a National Institutes of Health fellowship on experimental therapeutics.

At the Children's Hospital he treats children with a wide variety of ailments, including positional molding, craniosynostosis, spinal tumors, and spina bifida.

"I've taken out brain tumors; I've helped with some of the epilepsy cases," Campbell said of his work so far. "One boy, who is 7, suffered from Rasmussen's encephalitis and had terrible seizures. We took out the left hemisphere of his brain, because his seizures were so debilitating that we felt whatever deficits he would have from the surgery wouldn't be nearly as bad as the deficits he suffered because of the seizures."

Campbell said he feels at home in Rochester because the local pediatric community feels comfortable sending their patients to a neurosurgeon who's trained to care specifically for children. And Campbell loves the kids.

"They're fun to work with, and I think in some ways you actually do more good in pediatric neurosurgery than in some other fields," he said. "When I operate on a child, I know he or she still has their entire life ahead of them."

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