Wayne K. Goodman

Wayne Goodman, MD
American psychiatrist and researcher
Alma mater	Columbia University, Boston University School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Known for	Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale International OCD Foundation, Deep Brain Stimulation
Scientific career
Fields	Psychiatry, Neurology
Institutions	Baylor College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale

Wayne Goodman, MD, 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), which is considered to be the gold standard for assessing OCD.

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 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University.

Prior to joining Baylor, Goodman was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System for seven years. During his tenure, the Department rose to be among the top ten in the nation in research funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Goodman also served as Director of the Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development at the National Institute of Mental Health from 2007-2009. He was Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida in Gainesville for nine years.

A native of New York City, Goodman attended the Bronx High School of Science and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his internship, residency, and research fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.

In 1985, Dr. Goodman founded and served as Chief of the OCD Clinic at Yale University. During this time, along with his colleagues Lawrence Price and Steven Rasmussen, he developed the Y-BOCS, which is widely used in research and clinical practice to determine the severity of OCD and to monitor improvement during treatment. It has since been translated into numerous languages.

Goodman and his colleagues have also developed the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale—Second Edition (Y-BOCS-II) in an effort to modify the original scale. Other rating scales developed by Goodman and his colleagues include: the Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS), Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (FOCI), the Children's Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (C-FOCI), Level 2—Repetitive Thoughts and Behaviors (Cross-cutting symptom measure used in the DSM-5), and the Treatment-Emergent Activation and Suicidality Assessment Profile (TEASAP).