Sam Kosari

Professor Sam Kosari

Professor, Pharmacy

Details

  • College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Campus: Bundoora West Australia
  • sam.kosari@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Media enquiries
  • Teaching provision
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Membership of an advisory committee

About

Sam is a Professor of Pharmacy at RMIT University, with over 14 years of experience in pharmacy education and research. Prior to joining RMIT, he worked at the University of Canberra in Australia for more than a decade. His research focuses on improving health services through translational and practice-based research, with particular emphasis on aged care, pharmacy practice, general practice, medication safety and health service research. Professor Kosari led a nationally recognised program on integrating on-site pharmacists into residential aged care homes, which informed major policy reform and led to the establishment of a permanent, government-funded pharmacist service aimed at improving medication safety and care quality across the aged care sector.

Academic positions

  • Professor of Pharmacy
  • RMIT
  • School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Bundoora, Australia
  • 2025 – Present
  • Associate Professor, Course Convener, Discipline Lead in Pharmacy
  • University of Canberra
  • Pharmacy
  • Canberra, Australia
  • 2015 – 2025
  • Research fellow
  • University of Melbourne
  • Anatomy & Neuroscience
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2013 – 2015

Teaching interests

  • Pharmacy Research 
  • Research in Quality Use of Medicines
  • Pharmacy Practice
  • Dispensing
  • Introduction to pharmacology and taxicology
  • Quality use of medicine

Research interests

  • Pharmacy practice,
  • Health service research
  • Medicine safety
  • Integrated health
  • Onsite pharmacist in aged care
  • Integration of pharmacist into primary care
  • Implementation research
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