has over 20 years’ experience in the healthcare field in Europe and the US. She joins AESARA from AbbVie, where she most recently led the global HEOR team supporting AbbVie’s Toxin Therapeutic & Eyecare portfolios, having previously held leadership positions in the Neuroscience & Gastrointestinal therapeutic areas. Before joining AbbVie, Kate held positions of increasing responsibility in HEOR at Boehringer Ingelheim, within both the US and UK affiliates. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Kate worked as a Technical Analyst at the UK’s National Institute for Health & Care Excellence.  She began her career in employee benefits consulting, where her work on international medical insurance plan design inspired her to go back to school and study health economics.

Kate has a strategic mindset, coupled with strong analytical skills in the key HEOR disciplines of real-world evidence, economic modeling and patient-reported outcomes. She enjoys developing value and access strategies at all stages of the product lifecycle and fostering alignment across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve a common goal. Her career has spanned a broad range of therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, respiratory, cardiovascular and diabetes.