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Dr Andrew Howie
Dr Andrew Howie is the New Zealand representative on the RANZCP Section of Philosophy and Humanities and he has been closely involved in the development and delivery of the RANZCP Structured Learning Activity in Critical Thinking, the Position Statement on Religion and Spirituality, and other ethics-focused educational initiatives, with a particular interest in how philosophical methods can strengthen everyday psychiatric practice.
He has convened and chaired multiple College symposia in these areas.
A past Chair of the RANZCP Section of Rural Psychiatry, he has over two decades of clinical experience across New Zealand and Australia, including senior leadership roles in inpatient, community, forensic, rural, and Māori mental health services. He is a Fellow of RANZCP, and International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland.
He holds a Bachelor of Divinity with Distinction and a Diploma of Professional Ethics, and his academic and teaching work spans psychiatric ethics, values-based practice, spirituality, and clinical reasoning. He has published and presented internationally on philosophy and psychiatry, forensic ethics, cultural humility, and the impaired practitioner.
Dr Andrew Howie is the New Zealand representative on the RANZCP Section of Philosophy and Humanities and he has been closely involved in the development and delivery of the RANZCP Structured Learning Activity in Critical Thinking, the Position Statement on Religion and Spirituality, and other ethics-focused educational initiatives, with a particular interest in how philosophical methods can strengthen everyday psychiatric practice.
He has convened and chaired multiple College symposia in these areas.
A past Chair of the RANZCP Section of Rural Psychiatry, he has over two decades of clinical experience across New Zealand and Australia, including senior leadership roles in inpatient, community, forensic, rural, and Māori mental health services. He is a Fellow of RANZCP, and International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland.
He holds a Bachelor of Divinity with Distinction and a Diploma of Professional Ethics, and his academic and teaching work spans psychiatric ethics, values-based practice, spirituality, and clinical reasoning. He has published and presented internationally on philosophy and psychiatry, forensic ethics, cultural humility, and the impaired practitioner.
