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

As Senior Facilities Planners, Brenda and Ann work with the schools on needs assessments, identification of project scope, space utilization and planning, project estimates and authorization.  They provide project coordination between the internal groups of CPPM, U Construction, NTS, Central Security, FM District personnel; and external consultants and contractors. 

Brenda Trebesch

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

Ann Huhn

Email: ahuhn@umn.edu
Phone: 612-624-6696

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

AHC 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: 612-626-1561

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

AHC Research Building Management Services

Paul Wright

As the Manager of Research Building Management Services, Paul's endeavors include Building Design/Operation/Maintenance Policy Decision-making, interface with AHC, Deans, Department Heads and Administrators and Faculty; service on enterprise-level committees; etc 

Email: pmwright@umn.edu  
Phone: 612-624-6400

The Assistant Managers' areas of responsibility include day-to-day operations, training and supervision of building coordinators and student information desk employees; interface with faculty; building residents, department offices; access & key approval; FM; DEHS and other U department personnel; work with user of conference rooms; order supplies; ISO, and other accounting duties; etc.

Cheryl Miller
Core District: NHH, Jackson, MNMR, MCB, MCRB

Email: mille031@umn.edu  
Phone: 612-625-5905

Email: mddiers@umn.edu  
Phone: 612-625-9544

The Building Coordinators 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
NHH, Jackson & MNMR

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

Jonelle Adams
717 Delaware

Email: adams626@umn.edu
Phone:  612-626-2293

Sam Schroeder
MCB & MCRB

Email: schro615@umn.edu
Phone:  612-626-6387

Christopher Wright
LRB/MTRF & WMBB

Email: wrigh458@umn.edu
Phone:  612-626-6120