Kim is CPE Supervisory
Candidate and Staff Chaplain at United
Hospital in St. Paul. She has her B.A. from Concordia College, Moorhead
and M.Div. from Luther Seminary in St. Paul. She did congregational
internship in an Anglican church in the suburbs of London, England, and
completed CPE residency at Abbott Northwestern. Kim is ordained in the
Presbyterian Church, (U.S.A.) and is active in the Presbytery of the
Twin Cities Area. For the past eight years she has served as staff
chaplain in oncology and mental health at United. Kim lives in south
Minneapolis with her husband where she is active in neighborhood
revitalization, house restoration, and community livability.
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Rev. Dr. Verlyn Hemmen, M.Div., D.Min. - United Hospital verlyn.hemmen@allina.com
CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education
Verlyn is the
Chaplain Manager and CPE Supervisor at United Hospital in St. Paul. His undergraduate degree is in psychology from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. He has an M. Div. and a D.Min. from Western Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He took his first unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in Des Moines at Iowa Methodist and did his residency at Pine Rest in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ordained in the Reformed Church in America since 1979, he has served three parishes over a 20-year time span: Twin Lakes Reformed (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Church of the Saviour (Coopersville, MI); and Peace Reformed (Eagan, Minnesota). He began working at United Hospital in 2000 and offered the first unit of CPE there during the summer of 2000. He is married and has a son and a daughter.
Judy is a CPE supervisor and chaplain at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
She grew up near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University
of Colorado. She received an M.A. in counseling from Gonzaga
University, an M.Div. at United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities, and a D.Min. from the Claremont School of Theology in Southern
California. Her CPE training included a residency at the University of
Minnesota Hospital and Clinics and supervisory training in Southern
California. She began at Abbott in 2004, after fourteen years of
ministry in Southern California where she served as a Congregational
parish minister in Pomona, and launched a spiritual care and CPE program
at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center as the first Supervisor of
Pastoral Care. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of
Christ and is the mother of a son.
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Rev. Dick Sellers, M.Div., M.A. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital richard.d.sellers@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education
Dick is Director of the Allina Metro Hospitals Spiritual Care and Pastoral Education Department and is a CPE supervisor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He grew up in Fresno, California, and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He received an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and an M.A. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. He completed Clinical Pastoral Education residency programs in Los Angeles, Denver, and Lexington, Kentucky before moving to Minneapolis. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has been at Abbott Northwestern Hospital since 1977. He is married and is the father of three sons.
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Rev. David
Carlson, M.Div. - Mercy and Unity Hospitals david.carlson@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education
David Carlson
is an ordained (1966) Lutheran Pastor (M.Div.) in the ELCA. He graduated
from Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. (1960), and Lutheran School of
Theology also in Rock Island. (1965). He holds a Masters degree in
pastoral counseling and psychology (STM.) from Andover-Newton
Theological School in Newton Centre, MA. (1966). Following five years
of parish ministry in Milwaukee, he has served 34 years as Chaplain or
Director of Pastoral Services in men’s and women’s corrections, state
mental health institute, and general hospitals in Wisconsin, Iowa and
recently retired from Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis,
MN. He became the ACPE Supervisor at Mercy/Unity in August 2009.
Rev. Kyle Vlach, M.Div. - St. Francis Regional Medical Center kyle.vlach@allina.com
Supervisory Candidate, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education
Kyle Vlach, a native Minnesotan, is an
ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church. He serves as a
fulltime staff chaplain at Allina’s St. Francis Regional Medical
Center in Shakopee, MN. His education includes a B.S. in Psychology
and M.Div. with Post-graduate Certificate in Marriage and Family
Therapy from Bethel Seminary, and is a licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist. He completed both his CPE Internship and Residency at
Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Kyle is a CPE Supervisory Candidate
with the Allina CPE Center, and is supervising intern groups at St.
Francis, Allina’s newest CPE site. He is married and in process to
adopt a child from China.
CPE Supervisory Students
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Rev. Kelly Lewis, M.Div. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital