Bernard Yan
Bernard Yan is Academic Professor (salaried) of Neurology at the University of Melbourne. He is the immediate Ex-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 and cerebrovascular diseases. His major research interest is in large clinical trials especially on the topic of acute endovascular clot retrieval (thrombectomy) and machine learning applications in different subspecialty fields of neurology. He supervises together with the Engineering Department many PhD research students with focus on the interface between engineering solutions and neurological diseases.
Bernard Yan’s 301 academic papers include 1 (as co-first author) published in Lancet, 1 (as co-corresponding) published in JAMA and 5 (as co-author) published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In particular, the Lancet paper (Endovascular thrombectomy versus standard bridging thrombolytic with endovascular thrombectomy within 4.5 h of stroke onset) showed that bridging therapy was associated with better outcomes. This has effected significant change in stroke treatment guidelines worldwide. There are many clinical papers published in flagship academic journals: JAMA, JAMA Neurology, Lancet Neurology, Circulation and Stroke.
He is the founding organizer of the Australia and China Training Initiative of Neurology (ACTION) programme since 2010. The programme is in its 15th 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.
As the Ex-President of Stroke Society of Australasia, Bernard has developed and implemented the first nation-wide Stroke Unit Certification for Australia in the year 2022. It is envisaged that this will bring about harmonization of stroke management standards across the nation.
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