Graeme Hankey is the Perron Institute Chair in Stroke Research at The University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Perth, Australia. He trained in medicine at the University of Western Australia and in neurology at the Royal Perth Hospital, Australia; Mayo Clinic, USA; and Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

His main research interests include epidemiological studies and clinical trials of treatment strategies for acute stroke and stroke prevention. He has led
large international clinical trials including the VITATOPS and AFFINITY trials, and is now co-leading the SEANCON phase 2 trial of the cerebroprotectant ARG-007 in acute ischaemic stroke; the Librexia Stroke phase 3 trial of the oral factor XIa inhibitor, milvexian for preventing recurrent ischaemic stroke; and the Australian arm of the ASPIRING trial of antiplatelet monotherapy for preventing major vascular events after stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage. He is the Data Safety Monitoring Board chair of 3, and
member of 6, ongoing clinical trials.

He is an Associate Editor of Circulation, Editorial Consultant for The Lancet Neurology and JACC Advances, Section Co-Editor for the Epidemiology, Outcomes, & Population Science section of Stroke, editorial board member of Neuro-epidemiology and a senior editor of Cerebrovascular Diseases.
He is a Web of Science Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 2017-2019, having authored or co-authored 13 books and over 1090 publications, which have yielded over 240,000 citations according to Scopus and over 380,000 citations. He has a Field-weighted Citation Impact of 23.16. He has delivered over 600 invited lectures at international, national, and local scientific meetings.

He was awarded the 2015 American Stroke Association David G. Sherman Award for outstanding lifetime contributions in the field of stroke and in 2025, received Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his distinguished service to medicine as a Neurologist and Stroke Physician, to research and as an author and editor. Most of his work has been done as teamwork, and with the contributions and collaboration of others. Hence, he would like to inspire, train and help early and mid-career stroke researchers to enjoy and establish their research careers and to build their collaborations and partnerships with local, national and international colleagues.

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