Bernard Yan is Academic Professor of Neurology at the University of Melbourne. He is the President of the Stroke Society of Australasia which is the foremost society which links all stroke researchers of Australasia. He is a practicing clinical Neurologist and Endovascular Neurointerventionist in Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. His clinical expertise is in stroke intervention. His major research interest is in large clinical trials especially on the topic of acute endovascular clot retrieval (thrombectomy), machine learning applications in different subspecialty fields of neurology. He supervises together with the Engineering Department many PhD research students on wireless accelerometry and applications in a broad range of neurological diseases including epilepsy and stroke. Bernard Yan’s clinical trial papers include 4 published in the New England Journal of Medicine. These 4 papers have a major impact in changing stroke management guidelines. He is the founding organizer of the Australia and China Training Initiative of Neurology (ACTION) programme. The programme is in its 11th year of operations and has successfully trained over 300 young neurologists from China. He is one of the founding directors of the Australasian Stroke Academy which is the leading provider of stroke medicine education to young doctors in Australia.