CPE Supervisors

Picture Not Available	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.
Picture Not Available	Judy Roska, M.Div., D.Min. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital judith.roska@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education 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.
Picture Not Available	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.
Picture Not Available	Jim Tonneson, M.Div. - Mercy and Unity Hospitals james.tonneson@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education   Jim is a CPE supervisor and chaplain at Unity Hospital in Fridley and at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, MN. A native of North Dakota, he received his B.A. from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Luther Seminary in St. Paul where he received his Master of Divinity degree. He served rural parishes in North Dakota for 5 years. He completed a 3 year residency in CPE at the North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown, ND. He also completed an additional year of supervisory CPE at Methodist Hospital, Rochester, MN. He was the Director of Chaplaincy and CPE supervisor at Fergus Falls Regional Treatment center for over 20 years. He joined the  Allina CPE faculty in  June 2004. He is married and has two married sons and a married daughter all who live in the greater metro area.
	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