Kostas Trakas, PhD

                                                              Kostas is the founder and Principal at Prometheus Healthcare

                                                                 Strategies, a consultancy dedicated to helping healthcare

                                                                 organizations develop the integrated portfolio of solutions required 

                                                                 to be successful in today's challenging healthcare marketplace.

Kostas brings 13 years of global commercial experience within the pharmaceutical industry.  Most recently, he was a Global Marketing Leader within Janssen's Infectious Disease & Vaccines therapeutic area.  Prior to that, Kostas was part of two transformational business experiments within Johnson & Johnson - Janssen Healthcare Innovation and Janssen Diagnostics.   Each of these businesses was created to identify opportunities in the whitespace within the emerging healthcare ecosystem.

In today’s fiscally constrained environment, access in the form of technology assessments, pricing, reimbursement and real-world evidence generation are business critical components to the success of any healthcare offering. Kostas is able to leverage his deep understanding of market access gained over 10 years of progressive experience in access-oriented roles, including responsibility for early value assessment, brand and therapeutic area strategy, and licensing & acquisition.  As a global market access leader his experience has spanned the development life-cycle, across treatment modalities (drug, diagnostic, technology), geographies, and therapeutic areas (psychiatry, neurology, pain, cardiovascular, infectious disease).  

Kostas earned his Master’s and PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada.  He is currently based in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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