Dr. Myers is a Professor and Chief of Forensic Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He also is the Medical Director 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. He received his medical degree from Temple University. His training after a general 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.
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.
