Ann Arbor VA Medical Center/University of Michigan Health System

Annette Sodemann

 

Education and Background

Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills and Auburn Hills, Michigan

Responsibilities

  • Project support for research faculty. Includes preparing transcription from dictation, compiling and organizing data for manuscripts, abstracts and routine correspondences.
  • General typing, copying, collation and preparation of written materials.
  • Maintain faculty physician's calendar, schedule meetings and arrange travel and seminars.
  • Set priorities for faculty appointments.

  • Prepare travel and expense and purchasing card reports with the responsibility for ensuring compliance with sponsor, unit and University regulations.
  • Provide telephone coverage for faculty physicians, screen telephone calls and respond to inquiries from patients, physicians, vendors and regarding matters of a sensitive or confidential nature.
  • Organize and oversee faculty files and correspondences.
  • Coordinate the preparation of proposals, contracts, and grant materials for review by researchers, committees or administrators internal and external to the University.
  • Provide secretarial assistance in the completion of special divisional projects: TEFRA logs, faculty performance evaluations, CV, and biosketch updates.
  • Supervise work study student assigned to project.
  • Provide secretarial and administrative support for five faculty members in the
  • Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School.
  • Project Coordinator for the Patient Safety Enhancement Program.
  • Aid in grant submissions, maintenance of faculty CVs, create correspondence.
  • Create posters utilizing Adobe Illustrator and slide presentations utilizing Powerpoint.
  • Supervise one work-study student per semester.
  • Work with other secretarial support and staff in scheduling meetings and coordinating calendars.
  • Coordinate travel and reconcile expenses utilizing M-Pathways.
  • Support bibliographic databases utilizing Endnote and Procite.
  • Assist Senior Administrative Assistant with the division on-call schedule.
  • Assist office manager with faculty promotion packages.
  • Triage and respond quickly to calls from patients, faculty members and other customers