Louise M. Howard MSc, MPhil, PhD, MRCP

Professor Howard studied medicine at University College London and completed an intercalated BSc in Psychology before finishing her undergraduate studies in 1988. She trained in general medicine in Bloomsbury obtaining the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1991. After a year as a psychiatry trainee at St George’s Hospital Medical School, she came to the Maudsley Hospital in 1992.

After completing her general psychiatric training and obtaining the MRCPsych she obtained a Wellcome Trust Health Services Research Training Fellowship in perinatal psychiatry. She studied for an MSc in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and then studied for a Ph.D. on the outcome of pregnancy in women with severe mental illness; this work was awarded the Association of European Psychiatrists Research Prize in 2004.