Wayne Goodman

Wayne Goodman
American psychiatrist and researcher
Alma materColumbia University
Boston University School of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Known forObsessive Compulsive Disorder, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale International OCD Foundation, Deep Brain Stimulation
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry, Neurology
InstitutionsBaylor College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Wayne Goodman is an American psychiatrist and researcher who specializes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He is the principal developer, along with his colleagues, of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS).

In 2016, Goodman was appointed the D.C and Irene Ellwood Professor and chair of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University.