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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2004

Jon Charles Gould, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Central Surg Assn
  • Am Soc for Metabolic & Bariatric Surg
  • Amer Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Full-time Academic

General Surgery

8701 W Watertown Plank Rd Dept of

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI 53226

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Gould is the Walker Chair of Surgery and Chief of the Division of General Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He holds an academic appointment as a Professor of Surgery at MCW. He is Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Surgery. He is also the Enterprise Senior Medical Director for Procedural Quality for Froedtert Health System. Dr. Gould completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Ohio State University in 2002, and specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of obesity, GERD, and benign gastric and esophageal diseases.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • anti-reflux procedures
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • splenectomy

Hernia Procedures

  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery

Pain

Thoracic

  • achalasia
  • esophageal surgery
  • hiatal hernia
  • myotomy

Hospital Appointments

Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital

Milwaukee, WI,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

07/2011—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Madison, WI

Assistant Professor

07/2002—06/2007

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Madison, WI

Associate Professor

07/2007—06/2011

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

Associate Professor

07/2011—06/2014

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

Professor

07/2014—Present