Associate Professor Julian Maingard graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2012. He undertook a medical and surgical residency at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 2013-2014 and Radiology training at Austin and Monash Health before undertaking subspecialty training in Interventional Radiology and Neurointervention.

He is currently a staff specialist at Austin Health and St Vincent’s Hospitals as part of the NeuroInterventional Radiology team. He is registered by The Conjoint Committee for Recognition of Training in Interventional Neuroradiology in Australia (CCINR) and holds the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR-Vienna). Julian also sits on the Stroke Community of Practice advisory group for the delivery of reperfusion therapies within Victoria

He has a strong commitment to research and teaching and currently holds an academic appointment as an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at Deakin University.

He was awarded the Early Career Researchers Prize in 2020 by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists for his investigational study on Rescue Intracranial Stenting After Failed Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Julian’s current research interests lie in endovascular therapy for acute ischaemic stroke, intracranial aneurysms and vertebral augmentation for both osteoporotic fractures and palliative cancer pain therapy. He has authored over 100 publications and 6 book chapters as well as presented both internationally and nationally in the field of Neurointervention.