Jay Wellons

Jay Wellons MD, MSPH, is a Professor in the Departments of Neurological surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, and Radiological Sciences at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Cal Turner chair and is chief of the division of pediatric neurosurgery and is the medical director for the Surgical Outcomes Center for Kids, (SOCKs) which he co-founded. He has written op-eds for The New York Times and lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his family.

Books by Jay Wellons

All That Moves Us

Jay Wellons

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh, New York Times bestselling author of Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery