Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his MSc in Psychology from Rutgers University. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in 60 different medical, nursing, psychological, psychiatric, and sociological journals, as well as other social science and healthcare journals. His published articles include experimental, observational, and survey studies, in addition to systematic literature reviews, methodological critiques and theoretical papers.

Dr. Flannelly has published psychological research in clinical, cognitive, comparative, developmental, educational, and physiological psychology, and psychopharmacology. He has also published research on such diverse topics as animal learning and behavior, election and transportation forecasting, pastoral and spiritual care, and religion and mental health.

Dr. Flannelly has served on the editorial board of various scientific journals for over a dozen years, and he has been a peer-reviewer for 32 medical, social science and other scientific journals during the past 35 years. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (Routledge: Taylor & Francis), a position he has held since 2008. Dr. Flannelly has worked extensively as a professional editor for ESL authors, submitting manuscripts to peer-reviewed scientific journals. 
