Dr. Hale is Special Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Director of the Healthy Community Partnership. He also is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to assuming his position at Bayview Medical Center in 2011, Dr. Hale was Professor of Clinical Psychology at Stetson University, where he also served as Director of the Community Health Initiative. Dr. Hale's early research focused on depression, especially among older adults. In 1992, he began working with Drs. Richard Bennett and John Burton of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins to develop community-based health programs built around partnerships between medical institutions and religious congregations. This successful collaboration with Drs. Burton and Bennett led to the publication of several reports on their work and co-authorship with Dr. Bennett of Building Healthy Communities through Medical-Religious Partnerships, published by Johns Hopkins University Press and now in its second edition (2009). He also co-authored Healing Bodies and Souls: A Practical Guide for Congregations (Fortress Press, 2003) with Dr. Harold Koenig, Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Hale has served as a community health consultant for Florida Hospital Medical Center and other hospitals in the Adventist Health System. He currently is President of the O'Neill Foundation for Community Health, a charitable foundation dedicated to working with religious congregations, health care organizations, and community agencies to provide the training and resources people need to maintain their own health and to care for the sick and disabled, and is a member of the leadership team of the Presbyterian Health Network, one of the networks of the Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association