Dr. Andrew Howard studied psychology during an undergraduate degree at Harvard University, with a specific interest in neurophysiology, and medicine at Queen’s University with specific interest in psychosomatic medicine.  Since that time, he returned to Vancouver to complete a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in clinical neuropsychiatry.  He is certified in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry by the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties.

Dr. Howard currently serves as educational coordinator of the training component of the British Columbia Neuropsychiatry Program, one of two accredited Neuropsychiatry fellowship programs in Canada.  He is the Associate Program Director of the psychiatry residency program at UBC, organizing and overseeing the academic curriculum. As Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, his current interests include: optimal assessment and management of patients with somatic symptom disorders and functional neurological disorders; intensive rehabilitation of individuals with neurological conditions with psychiatric symptoms (including traumatic brain injury and movement disorders); clinical research in deep brain stimulation of refractory depression and movement disorders, functional cognitive disorders after mild traumatic brain injury and head injury, and pharmacotherapy of anxiety in Parkinson’s.  He acts as the consultant psychiatrist and clinical researcher to movement disorder patients at the University of British Columbia at the Centre for Huntington Disease and the Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre.