“In a good place.” That was attorney Joel Braithwaite’s assessment of Dr. Matt Wade Lambert days before police say the physician killed one person and wounded four others, then took his own life.
Dr. Matt Wade Lambert was preparing to start a new job after a career that included helping lead what healthcare executive Edward Marx described as a $1 billion Epic electronic-health-record implementation at NYC Health & Hospitals, followed by COVID-era virtual-care work and an emerging-technology leadership role at NEOM, the Saudi development launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Then came the murder/suicide and the mold headlines.
Investigators pointed to a condominium dispute involving mold and maintenance as a potential motive. Are we supposed to accept that grievance as a complete explanation and leave it there?
AbleChild has repeatedly challenged the rush to a narrative without the medical evidence. Where are the toxicology findings? What do relevant mental-health and medication records show? Headlines are not evidence. Repetition is not proof.
What makes this case more compelling is the scale of Lambert’s professional world and the public stakes. These ventures reached into electronic health records, medical privacy, patients’ control over their own information and pandemic-era healthcare financed through public reimbursement. Lambert’s career crossed institutions making consequential decisions about how people receive care, how their medical information is handled and how healthcare dollars are spent. Those are questions of medical freedom, privacy and public accountability, not merely impressive entries on a résumé. The public has a stake in how these investigations are handled.
The billion-dollar Epic implementation preceded COVID; Lambert’s pandemic-era virtual-care work came later. HCI Group material described remote monitoring for COVID patients and reimbursement changes supporting virtual services. Lambert responsibilities placed him at the intersection of healthcare delivery, technology and payment, in the center of billion dollars industries focused on obtaining government and private equity money. One might consider the public-private partnerships as the epitome of the forgotten citizen.
NEOM extended Lambert’s professional reach internationally. The enormous Saudi development, launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, combines planned communities, industries and advanced technology as part of the kingdom’s economic transformation. Lambert’s emerging-technology leadership role placed him inside that consequential undertaking.
How did Lambert leave his former position and where, exactly, was he about to start working? Advantmed said his tenure ended July 13. The reporting reviewed does not establish the circumstances of his departure or identify his next employer. Given his responsibilities and institutional access, those are consequential gaps in the timeline.
These public killings and suicides should not be judge on who is doing the killings alone, but what is in the killer’s system. The one questions the authorities avoid and public is not allowed to ask. Why?
This is exactly what is needed: preservation of the evidence, relevant mental-health and prescribing records, and accurate toxicology testing capable of detecting psychiatric drugs at therapeutic levels and ballistic reports. AbleChild’s work has pressed for this information for 25 years. The common factor in mass murders and suicides is the withholding of psychiatric drug treatments and mental health records, and the treating psychiatrist or medical doctor name. These records are essential to investigating possible contributing factor to protect the public and if authorities withhold the evidence, make them explain why.
HIPAA is not the holy grail of secrecy.
AbleChild’s work turns those demands into specific policy by the championed Tennessee’s 2025 HB 1349/SB 1146, co-drafted with Amy Miller and sponsored by Representative Mary Littleton and Senator Rusty Crowe. The measure established testing requirements for deceased suspected mass shooters in qualifying cases and a University of Tennessee Health Science Center research process.
Initially, coverage required four or more deaths. Tennessee expanded the framework in 2026 through SB 2088/HB 2013, Public Chapter 897, effective July 1. Coverage broadened to qualifying shootings involving four or more injured individuals or circumstances indicating an attempt to kill four or more. The legislation also addressed testing living suspects, consent and search warrants.
That expansion matters. Evidence collection should not depend on whether wounded victims survive. Collecting medication histories, conducting appropriate toxicology testing and analyzing findings across cases can help researchers identify patterns and evaluate prevention measures.
AbleChild presents Tennessee as a national blueprint. Extending that framework would address inconsistent evidence collection instead of leaving essential questions dependent on geography. Prevention requires information, not assumptions repeated after every attack.
In Oregon, AbleChild demanded the Silver Rail shooter’s toxicology and treatment-related records while Governor Tina Kotek declared an emergency October 26, eleven days after the shooting, and subsequently sought $10 million for recovery. Emergency assistance doesn’t stop investigative transparency. Spending is not a substitute for answers.
“An emergency order is not an investigative finding,” AbleChild wrote. “A funding request is not an accounting.” In this same light, a mold dispute may identify a grievance. It must not become a substitute for evidence.
AbleChild is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has recently co-written landmark legislation in Tennessee, setting a national precedent for transparency and accountability in the intersection of mental health, pharmaceutical practices, and public safety.
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