Coeus Consulting Group, a Philadelphia-based boutique life sciences consulting firm, has added two executives to bolster its market access offering. Kim Gwiadzdinski joins Coeus as the VP of outcomes & value based contracting and Dr. Neil Minkoff joins as chief medical officer.
Gwiadzdinski brings more than 20 years of market access experience, having held key strategic roles at large national payers Prime Therapeutics and Cigna. In the roles, she focused on strategy and implementation of agreements designed to lower overall costs.
She spent more than five years at Prime, where she was an AVP in trade relations, value based contracting & rebate administration; before that, she served as a senior director in pharmaceutical trade relations. At Cigna, Gwiadzdinski spent three-and-a-half years as AVP of pharmaceutical contracting.
Gwiadzdinski also previously worked at large pharmaceutical firms, serving as a senior director of market access strategy & portfolio innovation at Novo Nordisk, as well as a senior director of health management services at Merck.
She holds an MBA in pharmaceutical marketing from Saint Joseph’s University and a BS in pharmacy from University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
Minkoff has more than 20 years of market access experience. He founded consultancy FountainHead HealthCare in 2010, and also served as chief medical officer for the past nine years for a small firm working on patient data. He also served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission in 2012, which oversees health insurance for the state.
Prior to that, he was senior medical director at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and associate medical director at Partners Community Healthcare. Minkoff holds an MD from Dartmouth Medical School and a BA from Bowdoin College.
“Coeus welcomes both Kim and Neil, two widely respected and highly regarded medical and pharmaceutical professionals, and we’re excited at the value and insights they will bring to our internal team and clients,” said Marc Hixson, CEO of Coeus. “They are a key reinforcing step in the company’s overall mission to bring executive-level consulting expertise to every client engagement. Our clients’ primary goal is to ensure that all appropriate patients have access to the most effective and innovative therapies available and Kim and Neil’s addition to Coeus considerably advances that cause.”
Coeus helps US clients navigate the complex landscape of bringing drugs to market – supporting pharma, biotech, medical device, and payor companies. The consulting firm offers strategic and operational support, execution, and personnel resources, covering areas including business development, commercialization, regulation, and manufacturing.