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Roy G. Beran, is
a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician. His qualifications
include: MBBS, MD, FRACGP, FRACP, FRCP(Ed), FAAN, FANZAN, FAFPHM, Grad. Dip.
Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL, FACLM, FRNS, FSASS and
FFFLM (Hon). Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration
includes: Neurology; Public Health; and Sleep Medicine. He was: a Designated
Medical Examiner re the Civil Aviation Safety Authority; medical assessor for
Dispute Resolution re NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority; assessor re NSW
Workers Compensation Commission; and List 1 Consultant in Neurology for the Royal
Australian Navy (RAN). He is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of
NSW; Professor, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Queensland; Conjoint
Professor, Medical School, Western Sydney University; and Professor, Chair,
Medical Law, Sechenov Moscow 1st State University, Moscow, Russia; After
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he refused to re-sign with Sechenov University. He was the inaugural Visiting
Professor at the International Research Institute of Health Law Sciences, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, China and has just completed a teaching lecture tour,
as Visiting Professor, to the East China University of
Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China.
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He is: a
founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM); a Past
President thereof, having stepped down in 2011, remains on Council and awarded its
second Honorary Life Fellowship. In 2019, he was appointed ‘Co-Head of Faculty’,
co-ordinating ACLM training courses throughout Australia. He is
the Australian Governor and Immediate Past President of the World Association
for Medical Law (WAML), (previously President, Secretary General, Executive
Vice President and Regional Vice President) and served on Organising Committees
of many World Congresses for Medical Law, being Programme Chair in 2004 and
2022, both in Australia. He was the first Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of
Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He helped
negotiate with Bond University to create a programme in Legal Medicine, in
conjunction with the ACLM.
In Neurology, he
is: a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians; a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Corresponding Fellow of the American Academy
of Neurologists; and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association of
Neurologists. He is a Member of the
Australasian Sleep Association, having served on various committees thereof. He
pioneered clinical trials and research in private practice, being principal
author in publications which included leading academic/tertiary referral
institutions. He has published: >400 papers, book chapters and letters to
the editor; presented >450 papers at national and international meetings;
written or edited 17 books; is on numerous editorial boards; having been the Editor-in-Chief
of the WAML international journal, Medicine and Law.
In 2022, he was
invited to be a founding member of the newly formed Australian Magnetic Resonance
Imaging Association and was elected and remains the Vice President of the
foundation and subsequent Board of Management.
His research
interests include: Concussion; Epilepsy; Legal Medicine; Stroke; Sleep;
Neuroepidemiology; Neurological Imaging; and Medical Education.
He was an
officer in the RAN Reserves (holding the rank of Commander) and was awarded
membership of the general division of the Order of Australia, in 2015.