Roy G. Beran is a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician, also working in legal medicine, military medicine and aviation medicine. His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRACGP, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FAFPHM, FACLM, FRCP, FAAN, FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL and FFFLM (Hon). Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) includes: Neurology; Public Health; and Sleep Medicine. He was a Designated Medical Examiner for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, a medical assessor for Dispute Resolution for the State Insurance Regulatory Authority and an assessor for the Workers Compensation Commission of New South Wales (NSW). He is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW; Professor in the School of Medicine at Griffith University, Queensland; Conjoint Professor, Medical School, Western Sydney University; and Professor, Chair, Sechenov Moscow 1st State University, Moscow, Russia. Following 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 at the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China and has been invited personally to apply for a professorial position at the university in Shanghai by the dean of the newly established faculty, Professor Hongjie Manman. 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 was awarded its second Honorary Life Fellowship. In 2019, he was appointed as ‘Co-Head of Faculty’ to co-ordinate the ACLM training courses throughout Australia. He is the Australian Governor and was elected as President of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML), in 2022, having previously been Secretary General, Executive Vice President and Regional Vice President, plus serving on Organising Committees of numerous World Congresses for Medical Law (WCML), and 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 is currently negotiating with Bond University to create a Master of 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 Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. He is a Member of the Australasian Sleep Association, serving on various committees thereof. He pioneered the conduct of clinical trials and undertaking research within private practice, having been principal author in publications which included leading academic/tertiary referral institutions. He has published: almost 400 papers, book chapters and letters to the editor; presented in excess of 420 papers at national and international meetings; written or edited 17 books; serves on numerous editorial boards; and is the editor in chief of the international journal, Medicine and Law, the official journal of the WAML. In 2022, he was invited to be a founding member of the newly formed Australian Magnetic Resonance Imaging Association and, at its inaugural meeting, was elected as Vice President/Vice Chairperson, of the foundation 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 Royal Australian Navy Reserve (holding the rank of Commander) and was awarded membership of the general division of the Order of Australia, in 2015.