Office of Facilities Staff

Lorelee A Wederstrom

As Director of Facilities and Capital Planning for the Academic Health Center, Lorelee has responsibility for the overall planning and development of facilities used in the teaching, research, service/outreach and administrative programs of the AHC—currently some 5.5 million square feet. These responsibilities include capital project planning and programming, space management and providing coordination of services with University’s Facilities Management. In addition, she is responsible for AHC Classroom Services and Research Building Services which provide administrative, consultative and technical support to educational and research facilities throughout the AHC. Lorelee plays a major role in supporting the lease relationships with several important tenants including the University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview and the University of Minnesota Physicians. Lorelee represents the Academic Health Center on numerous University committees related to capital planning, including the Capital Oversight Group, the Twin Cities Campus Master Plan, Rochester Campus Master Plan and the Subcommittee on Twin Cities Facilities and Support Services. She has played a key leadership role in developing various master plan scenarios for the Academic Health Center and the Clinical Campus Plan, which includes major development of both our new children's hospital facilities and a new ambulatory care clinic.

Email: weder001@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-7088

Donald Adderley

Donald is a Senior Facilities Planner.  To fulfill this role, Donald works with AHC departments in project planning which includes identification of project scope, space programming, space allocation, project estimating, and plan development.  His projects generally fall within research labs, simulation labs, or diagnostic areas.  As project Administrator, Donald chairs the weekly project administration meeting.  Donald also facilitates many of the UMP lease space tenant improvements.

Email: adder001@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-3706

Brenda Trebesch

As a Senior Facilities Planner, Brenda works with the schools on needs assessments, identification of project scope, space utilization and planning, project estimates and authorization.  She provides project coordination between the internal groups of CPPM, NTS, Security, Zone personnel; and external consultants and contractors.  Brenda’s project focus lies in remodels of existing office, lab or education related spaces, and off campus leased space.

Email: trebe001@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 624-7982

Rich is a Facilities Planner for the Academic Health Center.  He is responsible for updating AHC and University space tracking databases; the production of floor plans and space reports; managing AHC space requests and the space resource tracking process; lease space tracking, documentation and process management; and managing the AHC storage space resources as part of the space request/resource process.

Email: swedb005@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-4376

Annette Wrobbel

As Executive Assistant, Annette provides office management for the Office of Facilities and Capital Planning.  In this role, Annette manages the director’s calendar, supports the facilities planners, and performs various administrative and accounting functions.  She is also responsible for maintaining and improving the office’s project tracking database and developing reports, and works on special projects from database creation to mapping.

Email: wrobbel@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 624-6635

Alex Morse-Noland

As the Student Planning Support, Alex provides administrative and research assistance, and updates the AHC Office of Facilities website.

Email: mors0120@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-4450

Classroom Services

Peg Brown

Peg is the Manager of Classroom & Planning Support Services. She works with AHC’s deans, administrators, and faculty to understand changes in pedagogy and facilitates the support of these changes through scheduling, facilities improvements and technology. She is also responsible for designing and developing planning and management resources for all service units within the AHC Office of Facilities.

Email: brown489@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 624-6651

Jacob Swogger

Jacob is the Audio-Visual Technician for AHC CS. He provides on-the-spot technical support, training and recommendations for technology development.

Email: swogg001@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 625-1292

Amy Currier

As Coordinator, Amy interacts with staff throughout the AHC and broader University in locating appropriate space for curriculum and other programming.

Email: acurrier@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-9253

Isaac Bros

Isaac is an Assistant Facilities Planner and ITV Distance Education Coordinator. He produces floor plans, graphics and reports for the AHC Office of Facilities and supervises student staff in Interactive Television Rooms for AHC Classroom Services.

Email: bros0106@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 626-9253

Building Coordinators

Jim, Wrenda, Sara and Lindsay are responsible for managing the duties of the information desks, scheduling student hours and tasks, ordering basic supplies, maintaining copiers and film processors, providing basic accounting services, completing routine FM work orders, updating Central Security’s access system, and assigning keys.

Jim Anderson

Email: ande8773@umn.edu
Phone:  (612) 625-9491

Wrenda Teeple

Email: teepl002@umn.edu
Phone:  (612) 626-2293

Sara Talbot

Email: weldi002@umn.edu 
Phone:  (612) 626-6120

Lindsay Blumenshein

Email: blum0134@umn.edu

Student employees staff the information desks in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Building, Nils Hasselmo Hall, 717 Delaware and Lions Research Building/McGuire Translational Research Facility; answer walk-up questions/requests; answer phones; schedule one-time and recurring events in conference rooms; maintain databases for access, training, keys, e-mail, etc; sort mail; dispense visitor cards, provide video and forms for required training; fulfill other tasks as required.

NHH Information Desk
(612) 626-0911
MCB Information Desk
(612) 625-3511
717 Delaware Information Desk
(612) 626-6386
LRB/TRF Information Desk
(612) 624-1611 or
(612) 282-9605