Kate is a principal and healthcare management consultant in the New York office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 1999. Kate's expertise is in the intersection of benefit design, disease processes, financing health benefits, and managing care. She leads teams of actuaries, benefits consultants, clinicians, and data analysts in projects for disease-management companies, hospitals, employers, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare industry trade organizations. As project lead, she is instrumental in designing data analytics and communicating the implications for clients, as well as managing Milliman resources.

Kate leads projects that require analyzing quantitative and financial outcomes of benefit designs, therapies, processes, and care management, and converting these findings into measurable improvements in quality and financial outcomes. Kate's role typically includes promoting these findings in organizations through reengineering, training, and process improvement. Recent projects have included helping employers and payers evaluate disease management, wellness, and other vendors; groundbreaking work on value-based benefit design; the impact on employers of population-based cardiovascular risk programs; health plan medical management program assessments and redesigns; and inpatient process improvement at several hospitals focused on improved denial management and length-of-stay reduction.

Prior to joining Milliman, she worked for a case-management company, where she developed the company's case manager training and education program. Kate was previously an instructor in the nursing program at Columbia University School of Nursing. Prior to that, she was a research assistant at Memorial Sloane Kettering, where she was involved in nursing research studies. She also worked as a research assistant in pharmaceutical research studies at Roosevelt Hospital. Kate's clinical background includes extensive experience as a registered nurse in emergency, adult inpatient, and ambulatory care units.

Kate is a member, ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), health policy committee; and serves on the Patient Care Primary Care Collaborative. She received her BSN at Villanova University and her MA, MEd at Columbia University.
 

David holds active medical licenses in California, Utah, and Pennsylvania. His affiliations include: Member, Editorial Board, The American Journal of Managed Care; Member, Editorial Board, Disease Management; and Senior Scholar, Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. David has been active in the sports medicine field and worked as a volunteer physician at the United States Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

David is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside, and received his Medical Doctorate at the University of Washington. David's post-graduate training was at the San Bernardino County Medical Center, where he completed a residency in family medicine in 1981. He served as chief resident for the medical center from 1980 to 1981. He has also attended the University of Utah Graduate School of Business Executive MBA program,
 

Cathy is currently vice-chairperson of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Committee on Federal Health Issues and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Health Practice Council. She is also a member of the Academy's Uninsured Workgroup and its Disease Management Workgroup. Cathy received a B Commerce degree from the University College Galway, Galway, Ireland.