Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine Conversation Series with Ted Giovanis

Description

Ted Giovanis, president of The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation and Team TGM as well as a professional racer, author, philanthropist, and researcher, will give a talk titled " Data, Risk, Adaptation and Resilience—What Real Life Experiences Can Tell Us About Health Care Today" as part of the Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine Conversation Series 2024-2025.

A Q&A session will follow the lecture.

The goal of the Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine Conversation Series 2024-2025 is to help us think about ways to improve the patient experience at Johns Hopkins by learning from experts in other fields and disciplines. The lectures are open to all members of the Johns Hopkins community. In order to allow for an open exchange between the speaker and the audience, the lecture will not be recorded for rebroadcast.

This is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please use the Mediasite link.

About the Speaker

Since giving up his health care consulting and advocacy practices completely in early 2017, Giovanis has been the president of the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy (JKTGF), which conducts research in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) and health policy. He is also a professional race driver and team owner in the International Motorsports Association (IMSA) racing series.

Examples of health policy research that the JKTGF has conducted include research on the value of hospital tax exemptions relative to hospital provided charity/free care, how to explain health plan prices and quality information to individuals with varying degrees of numeracy and literacy, and defining meaningful quality measures including the weighting of those measures into aggregate measures for communication to patients.

The JKTGF's work in the MBC space has to date included work on how CA (cancer) cells communicate, how CA cells fertilize or look for distant sites for future metastasis, the role of iron and oxygen in CA cell growth and metastasis, the use of mathematical models to develop and or refine treatments/therapies and/or their staging and drug dosing, and how to stimulate the immune system to attack MBC cells. In 2023, Giovanis created the Giovanis Institute for Translational Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins. The purpose is to continue work on metastasis in BC (breast cancer), look for similarities between metastasis in BC and metastasis in other cancers, and to change the risk averse mindset in how research is undertaken.

While in practice, Giovanis was involved in several legislative efforts that resulted in the establishment and implementation of several payment mechanisms, including the Medicare Geographic Review Board and Section 508 reclassification process, the policy for the payment of the Certified Registered Nurse Aesthesis', and the long-term care payment systems for various states. Most notably, Giovanis discovered and prosecuted the Medicare Budget Neutrality error, which was the basis of the Rural Floor Budget Neutrality Appeal (Cape Cod et al.) and related settlements, which were at the time the largest settlement Medicare had lost.