Professor Hankey received the Royal Society of Medicine Medical Book Award, Advanced Author Book category, for Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford) in 1997; the National Heart Foundation, Australia, President’s Award, 1999; the Mervyn Eadie award of the Australian Association Neurologists for career achievement in neuroscience research in 2006; the Western Australian Premier’s prize for achievement in science in 2006; the Stroke Society of Australasia Excellence in Stroke Award in 2011; the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Jamieson Medal in 2014; and the American Stroke Association David G. Sherman lecture award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of stroke in 2015.