Medical College of Wisconsin Pediatrics-Anesthesiology Residency Program Leadership
Program Director
Michael C. Weisgerber, MD, MS
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
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Children's Hospital
Dr. Scott 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.
Jacqueline Simon, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Children's Hospital
Dr. Jacqueline 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.
Laura Gonzalez, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Laura González is a cardiac anesthesiologist and is board-certified in both anesthesiology and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. Her academic interests lie in quality and patient safety.
Lauren Reiter, DO
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Children's Wisconsin
Dr. Lauren Reiter received her undergraduate degree from Miami University in Ohio. She received her medical degree from Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Advocate Children’s Hospital – Oak Lawn on the South Side of Chicago where she loved it so much she stayed for an additional chief year. She then went to the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital to complete her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care and play in the mountains in between taking care of sick children. At that point she still was not done learning, so completed an additional fellowship in Neurocritcal Care at Northwestern University/Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In 2023, Dr. Reiter joined the pediatric faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin working as a Pediatric Intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. In September 2024, Dr. Reiter became an associate program director for the pediatric residency program, where she gets to live out her passion for medical education. She takes pride in her array of medical training experiences that she is able to share with the residents as she guides them on their journey to prepare for life as a subspecialist in pediatric medicine.