One of Australia’s Leading Health Professionals
Hygeia Health Strategies’ Kos Sclavos AM has succeeded as a strategic leader, health industry professional and political lobbyist for over two decades. Having implemented numerous cutting edge initiatives, Kos has left a legacy of improved health outcomes in successfully shaping the broader health landscape. Kos consults to the broader pharmaceutical sector.
Kos served as President of the Queensland Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia for nine years before being elected to the role of National President in 2005. He was the seventh and youngest ever National President in the 85-year history of the Pharmacy Guild. Kos stepped down in September 2013. Kos completed a remarkable eight-year term, having been elected to the position on three occasions. He served as National President during a period of unprecedented change and development in the pharmacy sector.
Kos was recruited as a Senior Health Consultant at Sinapse in 2013. Sinapse is an Australian-based management, technology and systems integration company. It is in this role Kos has led the development and implementation of five remunerated professional pharmacy programs in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies. Under the PharmaPrograms banner these programs have been implemented in over 4,300 pharmacies bringing in millions of dollars in additional remuneration to community pharmacies.
In 2015 the Federal Minister for Health appointed Kos to the Pharmaceutical Services Federal Committee of Inquiry.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2017, Kos was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant service to the pharmacy profession through a range of retail, advisory and executive roles, to education, and to community health.
Kos continues to serve on the Queensland Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia as Vice-President and is the Chairman of the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference which provides continuing education to 6,000 delegates each year. Kos is the Convenor of the Guild’s second national conference Pharmacy Connect to be held in Sydney each September.