CHARLES A. MORGAN, III, M.D., M.A.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Research Affiliate, History of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Director of the Human Performance and Psychophysiology Laboratory
National Center for PTSD

Dr. Morgan is a nationally recognized forensic psychiatrist with over 25 years experience in mental health with extensive expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and operational psychiatry. He currently serves as Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Research Affiliate, History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine where he is responsible for direct patient care, education, and training and supervision of medical students, residents, and physicians specializing in PTSD. Dr. Morgan also serves as the Director of the Human Performance and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the National Center for PTSD and as a subject matter expert at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Among Dr. Morgan’s other notable past positions include serving as a Special Advisor to the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Defense (DoD), Subject Matter Expert to the U.S. Intelligence Science Board for the Director of National Intelligence Educing Information Report, and Masters Thesis Advisor for the Joint Military Intelligence College at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC.

Dr. Morgan has extensive experience in conducting research studies on PTSD in military populations, operational and forensic psychiatry, as well as developing advanced clinical interviewing techniques and credibility assessments that have been implemented by professionals in the field of national security. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Morgan has served as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of numerous studies funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the DoD, the Joint Personnel Recovery Association, and the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. Furthermore, he was deployed to Afghanistan and served as a Psychiatric Advisor with the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group. Dr. Morgan has also conducted psychological assessments of candidates applying to special Army and Marine units. In addition, he has served as an expert witness and forensic examiner for both the U.S. government and for private legal organizations, including the International Tribunal for War Crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia for the United Nations Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

Dr. Morgan is a prolific scholar whose research has resulted in over 100 publications including book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and technical reports. His publications have appeared in highly regarded journals such as Psychiatry, Psychiatric Annals, the Journal of Traumatic Stress Studies, the Journal of Strategic Security, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development, Military Neuropsychology, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychiatry, the Journal of Affective Disorders, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Military Medicine, the International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, Neuroimaging, the Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Journal of Psychiatry among many others.

Throughout his professional tenure, Dr. Morgan has been recognized for outstanding service and numerous accomplishments as a clinician and educator. Among his awards are the Sir Henry Welcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS), the Visiting Professorship Award from the Department of Operational Psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway, the Alumni Achievement Award for Special Achievement in Health Sciences from Loma Linda University, as well as the Physician Associate Program’s Special Teaching Award, the Lucia P. Fulton Fellowship Award, and the Stephen Fleck Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Clinical Teacher from Yale University. Additionally, Dr. Morgan received the U.S. Army Award for Patriotic service for work that enhanced the training mission of soldiers at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School. Dr. Morgan’s research efforts have been featured in many television, radio and print media outlets including CNN, ABC’s 20/20, the Discovery Channel, National Public Radio, the New York Times, Popular Science, Wired, Men’s Magazine, the New Yorker magazine, and New Scientist.

Dr. Morgan received his Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. He completed his Master of Arts degree in the History of Medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and his Bachelor of Arts in French at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California. Dr. Morgan also completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry from Yale University School of Medicine.