Professor Bernard Yan is Academic Professor (salaried) of Neurology at the University of Melbourne. He is the immediate Ex-President of the Australia and New Zealand Stroke Organization (previously known as 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 major research interest is in large clinical trials especially on the topic of acute endovascular clot retrieval (thrombectomy). Bernard Yan’s 314 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. 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 President of Australia and New Zealand Stroke Organization, 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.
Professor Bernard Yan
Neurointervetion Expertise
Dr Yohanna Kusuma, FRACP, PhD, is a consultant neurologist qualified in Australia. Her expertise in stroke, neurosonology, neuroimaging and movement disorders.
She holds dual international certification in neurovascular interpretation and neurosonology, including Registered Physician in Neurovascular Interpretation certification in the United States and Neurosonology certification from the World Federation of Neurology Neurosonology Research Group in Europe.
Dr Kusuma also completed her medical and neurology training in Indonesia, followed by subspecialty training in stroke and advanced neurosonology in Singapore at National University Hospital, Singapore General Hospital, and the National Neuroscience Institute. She subsequently completed Movement Disorders subspecialty training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital under Associate Professor Andrew Evans.
Alongside her clinical work, she follows an active academic pathway and is currently an Affiliate Lecturer at Deakin University and a Senior Research Fellow (Level C) at The University of Melbourne. She is a Council Member of the Australasian Stroke Academy and the Southeast Asia Neurological Association for Education, and a Councillor of the Asia Pacific Stroke Organization, where she contributes to the Continuing Medical Education Committee. She speaks English, Malay, and Indonesian.
Neurologist Subspecialty Stroke, Neurosonology & Movement Disorders
Dr Yohanna Kusuma
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