After graduating UCLA, he completed graduate training at Florida State University (1985) and was honored to present his research on self-injurious behavior at the First National Conference of Powerful Data-Based Systems for Treating Autism in 1980. He completed his internship and advanced fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and was appointed as a Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1982-84. As former Chief Psychologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Dr. Gale implemented no-cost assessment programs to identify individuals with developmental disorders who had been misdiagnosed with mental illness.