Jay Wellons

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, Jr. 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. His new book is All That Move Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

Jay Wellons

If Our Politicians Could See What We See: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon on Gun Violence

Warning. This is graphic.I still remember those two blood vessels deep in that boy’s brain, shredded by a bullet fired into a crowded playground. The same bullet that blew fragments of one side of the...