Here are five notes:
1. Dr. Wellons serves as pediatric neurosurgery chief and neurological surgery professor at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
2. In his new role, Dr. Wellons will oversee the journal’s editors as well as review articles.
3. Dr. Wellons has served on the editorial board since 2012. Editorial board members review about 200 manuscripts annually, increasing to about 1,000 manuscripts when they serve as chair.
4. Founded in 2004 as a supplement to the Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics became its own monthly publication in 2005.
5. Dr. Wellons completed his pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Birmingham-based Children’s Hospital of Alabama.
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