Medical College of Wisconsin Pediatrics-Anesthesiology Residency Program Leadership

Program Director

Michael Weisgerber, MD, Program Director. Dr. Weisgerber received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his pediatric residency at the Medical College of Georgia. He then returned to Milwaukee to complete a fellowship in general academic pediatrics and master’s degree in epidemiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Following fellowship he joined the department of pediatrics faculty as a pediatric hospitalist in 2004. He was an associate director of the pediatric residency program from 2008-2012 before becoming the program director in 2012. Dr. Weisgerber is an avid sports fan and he enjoys playing, coaching, and spectating. The only teams he likes more than Marquette are his daughters’ soccer teams. He enjoys the diversity of patients and conditions he sees as a hospitalist and is active in many aspects of medical education - from administration to teaching on the wards to educational research. “I love having three jobs in one - being a hospitalist, a clinician-educator and a Program Director! The people here at MCW are fantastic - whether it is the patients, the faculty, the nurses, the students, the fellows, the administrative staff - and of course the residents I can’t imagine being anywhere else.”

Associate Program Directors

John (Jake) Scott, MD, Associate Program Director. Dr. Scott is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. He is board-certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and pediatric anesthesiology. He is a cardiac anesthesiologist and intensivist at Children’s Wisconsin and works extensively in the care of children with congenital heart disease in the operating room and cardiac intensive care unit. His research interests include cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) related morbidity, including coagulopathy, and bypass associated organ dysfunction.

Dr. Laura González is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a cardiac anesthesiologist and is board-certified in both anesthesiology and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. Her academic interests lie in quality and patient safety and increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic medicine.

Dr. Jacqueline Simon, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. Dr Simon is board-certified in General Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Pediatric Anesthesiology. She completed medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she stayed for residency training in the Combined Pediatrics and Anesthesiology program,  and subsequently completed fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital. Her primary areas of interest include neonatal and thoracic anesthesia.

Dr. Justinn Tanem, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. He is board-certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and pediatric anesthesiology. He is a cardiac anesthesiologist and intensivist at Children’s Wisconsin and works extensively in the care of children with congenital heart disease in the operating room and cardiac intensive care unit. His research interests include biomarker development and risk stratification following surgery for congenital heart disease.