Wade C. Myers III, MD

Wade Myers, MD, is a forensic psychiatrist and professor and chief of the division of forensic psychiatry in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Myers is also director of child and adolescent psychiatry for Newport Mental Health. Formerly, he was a professor and chief of the divisions of forensic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of South Florida department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine, and prior to that he served as the chief of the division of forensic psychiatry at the University of Florida department of psychiatry. He received his medical degree from Temple University. His training after a psychiatry residency included fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, and he is board-certified in all three of these specialties.

Dr. Myers has been licensed to practice medicine in the state of Florida since 1984 and in Rhode Island since 2009. Throughout his career, Dr. Myers has been a forensic psychiatry consultant to attorneys and courts on a broad range of criminal and civil matters. This practice has involved forensic consultation in many states and internationally, and he has testified as an expert witness in hundreds of cases. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and the book Juvenile Sexual Homicide. His primary research interests are in juvenile and adult homicide, sexual homicide, and malingering by homicide defendants. Additionally, he is the developer of the SADSEX-SH-R, a homicide crime scene rating scale that assesses for the presence of sexual sadism in offenders, and he is currently working on a structured professional judgment instrument for the assessment of criminal responsibility in homicide defendants.