Nawaf Yassi is a consultant Neurologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he is also the Head of Education and Training. He is also a research fellow at the Melbourne Brain Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He has a particular interest in using advanced brain imaging to predict outcomes after acute stroke. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 2005 with first-class honors. He holds an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship investigating cerebrovascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as the interface between Alzheimer's Disease and cerebrovascular disease. He has published 120 papers with 8985 citations and an h-index of 30 (Scopus, 11 December 2023).