Department of Dermatology
1021 Medical Arts Ave.
Albuquerque, NM 87131-5231
(505) 272-6000
Fax (505) 272-6003
e-mail contact
Tomai brings over 20 year s of health care experience to her position as Clinical Department Administrator for Dermatology. After receiving her master’s degree in Business Administration from Loyola College, Tomai relocated to New Mexico and reentered health Care by taking a position at St. Joseph Health Care system as Market Development Manager for the system. In 2001, Tomai began her career at UNM in the Department of Neuroscience, where she was hired as Department Administrator. Tomai came to Dermatology in April of 2009, and brings a wealth of HR experience, a strong customer service ethic and an enthusiastic positive attitude to the position.
A brief description of Michele looks something like this . . . She’s a child of the 60s, with a “New York State of Mind,” a passion for music (Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett are her favorites), who dares to dream, and make a difference. Michele graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a BA in education, and the University of Phoenix Online with a Master of Arts in Organizational Management (MAOM). She has more than 20 years of progressive and diversified business experience in small organizations, and large corporations as a marketing communications professional; and more recently in private and state universities first as an Admissions Counselor and then as faculty for the University of Phoenix/Axia College Online. Michele came to the University of New Mexico in 2007 and worked as an Administrative Assistant in the School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Nephrology before being recruited to work for the Department of Dermatology as their Residency Program Coordinator.
Laura is employed by UNM Medical Group, Inc. and is directly involved in our department as she is responsible for logging receipt and completion, schedules, disperse, submit and quality check of all data prep jobs. She coordinates daily input and output priorities for schedule and processes large volumes of CPT and ICD-9 Code entries into IDX, Cerner Millinium and PharmNet.
The dermatology clinic includes 2 RNs, 5 MAs and an office supervisor. They provide support for our physicians and are primarily responsible for customer/patient satisfaction. Please call (505) 272-211 for any questions regarding the clinic.