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New Years Honours

4 January 2012

Professor Clare Fowler

We are delighted to announce that Professor Clare Fowler, UCL Professor of Uro-Neurology at the Institute and Honorary Consultant Uro-Neurologist at the NHNN, UCLH Trust, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List "for services to Uro-Neurology".

Professor Fowler established a specialist unit in 1987 for patients with urological problems and sexual dysfunction as a consequence of neurological disease.

In 1985, a syndrome was named after her – Fowler’s Syndrome – after she discovered why people suffer from urinary retention.

She said: “I will be accepting the award on behalf of all the nurses and doctors who have helped me care for patients and build up the department of uro-neurology."


The UCL Institute of Neurology promotes teaching and research of the highest quality in neurology and the neurosciences. The Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery are members of  UCL Partners, Europe's largest academic health science partnership.