Professor Roy Beran

Roy G. Beran is a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician. 

His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRACGP, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FAFPHM, FACLM, FRCP(Edin), FAAN, FANZAN, FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL and FFFLM (Hon).

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 is a founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM); Past President thereof, stepped down in 2011, still on Council and awarded Honorary Life Fellowship. From 2019-2026, he was ‘Joint Head of Teaching Faculty’.

He is the Australian Governor and was President of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML) in 2022, having previously been Secretary General, Executive Vice President and Regional Vice President.

He was the first Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (London).

He has published almost 400 papers, book chapters and letters to the editor; presented in excess of 430 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.