Samer Elbabaa, MD | Source | Medical Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer H...

Samer K. Elbabaa, MD, FAANS, FAAP, FACS, is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon and serves as the director of the The Leon Pediatric Neuroscience Center of Excellence at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. He also serves as the medical director of the Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Neurosurgery specialty practice. He specializes in pediatric brain and spinal cord tumor microneurosurgery, neuroendoscopy, fetal neurosurgery, minimally invasive endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalus, pediatric craniofacial surgery, skull base surgery, fetal repair of myelomeningocele and cranio-cervical junctional anomalies. Previously, Dr. Elbabaa performed 60 open fetal in-utero surgeries for spina bifida in Saint Louis before moving to Orlando in 2017. He is considered one of the most experienced fetal neurosurgeons in the United States and the world. Dr. Elbabaa is also a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine, and a father of two.