John Roers Ma Email Address

Senior Disability Representative

St. Thomas stands among the most select universities in Minnesota, with more than 90 undergraduate and 60 graduate programs.

I'm an HR an professional with 7 years of experience, an MA in Human Resources, and an MA in Counseling Psychology. I currently work as an HR Services Representative at Aon Hewitt in benefits administration. For 11 years my experience involved adjudicating disability claims at the State of Minnesota for both Social Security Disability and the State Medical Review Team. During this time I also worked as a paralegal for a law firm that represents people who have filed a social security disability claim. I have given presentations at two local law firms that represent claimants who have filed social security disability claims to help establish a better working relationship with the state agencies and better serve our claimants. For nearly six years I worked as an HR Associate in the HR Service Center (HRSC) at Allina Health. The HRSC processed all payroll and benefit information for 23,000 employees. In this role I provided benefit information to newly hired employees and remote HR offices. As a counseling intern I provided one-on-one personal counseling services to students. I also co-instructed a course titled ‘Career1: Self-Assessment’ and worked with students in the Career Resource Center. From 1998-2006 I was a member of Minnesota Professionals for Psychology Applied to Work and served as a member of the board from 2000-2001. As one of the secretaries I participated in board meetings and wrote the summaries of the presentations for publication in the organization's newsletter.