Kos Sclavos

National President,
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia

Kos Sclavos is only the 7th National President in the long history of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. Having just completed the first year of his term Kos can already mark the important restructuring of the PBS and the long term sustainability of the PBS as an important achievement. Kos and the Guild have begun the task of generational change with a key focus on IT enablement for the profession. Previous to his national presidency Kos spent nine years as the Queensland Guild Branch President, and 6 years as National President of the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management (now ACPPM).

Kos continues to serve on a wide variety of industry bodies and committees and is a regular feature writer in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacy News. In 1999 Kos was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Young Pharmacist of the Year Award, as well as the PSA Bowl of Hygeia Award. In 2005 Kos was awarded the Allied Health/ Education Worker of the Year by Epilepsy Australia. Kos has been a driving force behind a number of industry initiatives including the Advanced Diploma of Community Pharmacy Management, the Quality Care Pharmacy Program and now Project Stop.