SDCMS Announces Our Newest Team Member
Hello SDCMS Medical Office Managers!
My name is Sonia Gonzales, and I am your new medical office manager advocate! Many of you worked closely with Lauren Wendler, your previous SDCMS medical office manager advocate, over the past couple of years, and I hope to continue the great work she did in supporting you. Like Lauren, my primary responsibility will be to help you with all of your questions as you work hard to support our member physicians. I can’t tell you how excited I am to serve our medical community as your advocate!
I believe you’ll find that I am intimately familiar with all of the challenges you face. Eight years ago, I started out in the medical field as a medical assistant and front-office coordinator for a local family practice. After a few years, I became the referral coordinator, and, finally, for the past five years, I worked as a medical office manager. Recently, I decided to reach out beyond my particular medical practice to help the broader medical office manager community — and here I am!
As recently as last year, I utilized the services of SDCMS’ office manager advocate to clarify certain medical records release forms. My interactions with SDCMS reminded me how vital it is as a support organization to have an advocate for all of our county physicians and their staff. I got the job done much more easily and quickly when I leveraged the resources of SDCMS!
As your new medical office manager advocate, I look forward to meeting each and every one of you either at your office or here at SDCMS — at one of our seminars, for example. I look forward to learning from you how best to grow my role at SDCMS as your advocate so that you can better serve your physicians and staff. We will have many exciting opportunities ahead of us to work together and to help each other. You are not alone, and I strongly suggest that you not hesitate to pick up the phone or send me an email if ever you have a question or concern you need help with. You can reach me on my direct line at (858) 300-2782 or by email at SGonzales@SDCMS.org. Talk to you soon!