Robert Howard: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Professor at University College London (UCL)
- Quoted on
- Dementia
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“It was 'unfortunate and unfair' to families affected by dementia that these drugs have been hyped in a way that is 'not supported by robust science and that will have raised false hopes'.”
What Robert Howard has said
“The sad truth is that even the best-performing drugs don't do anything that's clinically meaningful”
Professor of old age psychiatry at UCL · Dementia · 27 Aug 2026 · Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes ↗
Where Robert Howard has been quoted
- 'Breakthrough' Alzheimer's drugs unlikely to benefit patients, report suggestsbbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludestheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.