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"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 SurgeryTumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations - there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain - in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human - every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet fully determined and all possibilities still exist.
About the Author
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, Jr. Chair and is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Vice Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, Vice Chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences, and directs the Surgical Outcomes Center for Kids, (SOCKs) which he co-founded. He has over 250 published scientific and medical articles on all aspects of pediatric neurosurgery and is a recognized national lecturer and expert in fetal neurosurgery, the Chiari Malformations, brachial plexus surgery, surgical clinical outcomes research, and health care disparity. He has twice been a contributor to The New York Times Sunday Review. Many moons ago, he graduated from the University of Mississippi with a BA in English. All That Moves Us is his first book. Dr. Wellons lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Melissa - also a physician, two teenage children Jack and Fair, and dog Watney.
