George Kiossoglou spent 41 years working in the IT industry for small to large private and public organisations. This ranged from technical to global management roles giving him a breadth of experiences across different, skillsets, including leadership, mentoring, training, sales, cultural. In April 2013 he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and underwent chemotherapy followed by an Allogenic Stem Cell Transplant and then returned to work until retiring in January 2016. At this point, he wanted to give back to the medical community. In 2017, he joined the WEHI Consumer Program using his health and life experiences to work with and mentor basic scientist and clinician/researchers on their research, grants, presentations covering Blood Cancers, Infectious diseases, Immunotherapy. He is on the Committee for the Nursing and Midwifery Research Innovation Collaborative Advisory Group. He is a Consumer for the ACRF Translational Lab, which includes being on the VICTORY Trial Management Committee and the RMH Consumer Representative on the FACT Steering Committee. He is a Consumer reviewer on grant review boards for Cancer Council Victoria, RMH and Cancer Council South Australia. In addition, he is a member of the Royal Melbourne Ethics Committee, VCCCA Program 9 Leadership Committee and is involved as a Patient Collaborator for the UoM School of Clinical Pathology Honours Program. Finally, he is on the Consumer Advisory Panels for WEHI and MACH, as well as a committee member for the Victorian Cancer Advisory Committee and the Victorian Nursing and Midwifery Research Innovation Collaborative Advisory Group.