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Kate Valette is a Vice President, Clinical Director Workers’ Health 360 at Marsh McLennan Agency’s Employee Health & Benefits division. In this role, Kate helps MMA’s clients leverage their workers’ compensation, medical and pharmacy claims, disability, and leave data to identify patterns and trends across their organization. She supports employers to develop and execute strategies to control healthcare costs, improve health outcomes and promote employee engagement through analytics-based state of the art innovations and reporting.

Kate has more than 20 years of direct patient care experience as a registered nurse in the emergency department and surgical and burn ICU, prior to moving to a corporate role with a government contractor followed by consulting.

During her tenure with a government contractor, she led a team of registered nurses and non-clinical team members within a total rewards department. Her responsibilities were the management of the following programs: in house short term disability administration, workers’ compensation, leave administration, well-being program development, reasonable accommodation oversight, and clinical management for populations ranging from 5,000 to 41,000 employees. Additional clinical experiences were quality management, utilization review, and client consultation with employee health and benefits.

Kate earned an associate degree in nursing from State University of New York at Morrisville and bachelor’s in science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix. She is a Legal Nurse Consultant and past member of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics policy committee.