Pediatric Residency

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

Herodotos Ellinas, MD, Associate Program Director. After completing his residency in internal medicine/pediatrics at Duke University, he provided primary care services in both rural and urban areas for nearly a decade (1996-2005). He then completed another residency in anesthesiology at The Medical College of Wisconsin, in 2008, and a Fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School in 2009. He returned to MCW to assume a faculty position in the Anesthesiology department with clinical duties spanning both the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital. He is a current Anesthesia Associate Program Director. "My vision is to attract high caliber medical students and funnel them into academic medicine, critical care, quality assurance/safety and hospitalist positions desperately needed in our country."

 

 

Charlie Bergstrom, MD, Associate Program Director

 

 

 

 

 

John (Jake) Scott, MD, Associate Program Director. Dr. Scott is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He is board certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology, and critical care medicine. He completed undergraduate studies at The University of Notre Dame, medical school at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, with residency and fellowship training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He works extensively in the care of children with congenital heart disease in the operating room and critically ill children in the intensive care unit.