About the Foundation
The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy – JKTG – aims to change health care for the better. Funding innovative medical research, data analysis, events, and other projects, JKTG serves as an honest, independent broker of ideas and actions designed to advance both health care and health policy.
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2022 JKTG Foundation Initiatives
In 2022, JKTG Foundation work focuses on rethinking health care quality, emerging cancer research, and uses for real-world evidence. Of particular interest is building collaboration by fostering multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research in the area of breast cancer metastasis.
No “batting average” for experts
I am a professional race car driver. We race at speeds of 170-180 mph, at night, in the rain, and with lots of other cars on the track. There are television commentators and announcers at the track who render commentary but many have never driven race cars at our level so can’t truly understand what we’re doing.
A time for thanks. . . .
It’s become a bit of a tradition for the Foundation to send a Thanksgiving note, and this year we’re excited to support projects that have evolved as part of ongoing work by researchers and the Foundation.
#HealthInnovation
Vision & Approach
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) operating foundation, the JKTG Foundation has a simple but ambitious mission – make health care better.
Its work is rooted in an equally simple questions: Why are things done a certain way? How are patients impacted? What can be done differently to make things better or more efficient? This relentless curiosity drives every aspect of what the Foundation does.
It discretely funds science, scientists/researchers, and projects; it does not fund laboratories.
This approach – unique selection and support of unbiased research – differs from other grant-making foundations.
Operationally, JKTG identifies subject areas in which it has an interest, with which it wishes to be involved, and which it believes great impact could be made.
JKTG then identifies researchers or scientists in the applicable field possessing demonstrated capabilities and then, collaboratively, considers appropriate projects.
As a result, JKTG generally selects the scientists/researchers before a project is defined. This approach allows JKTG to understand specifically what a project did or did not demonstrate.
Vision & Approach
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) operating foundation, the JKTG Foundation has a simple but ambitious mission – make health care better.
Its work is rooted in an equally simple questions: Why are things done a certain way? How are patients impacted? What can be done differently to make things better or more efficient? This relentless curiosity drives every aspect of what the Foundation does.
It discretely funds science, scientists/researchers, and projects; it does not fund laboratories.
This approach – unique selection and support of unbiased research – differs from other grant-making foundations.
Operationally, JKTG identifies subject areas in which it has an interest, with which it wishes to be involved, and which it believes great impact could be made.
JKTG then identifies researchers or scientists in the applicable field possessing demonstrated capabilities and then, collaboratively, considers appropriate projects.
As a result, JKTG generally selects the scientists/researchers before a project is defined. This approach allows JKTG to understand specifically what a project did or did not demonstrate.
Ted Giovanis the author
Beyond Fear: How I Fought the Feds for Six Years―and Won
In this gripping story, JKTG Founder Ted Giovanis provides a front-row seat for how he ― a self-employed healthcare finance and regulatory consultant ― overcame extraordinarily long odds in his battle with the federal government, culminating in one of the largest court settlements in the history of Medicare.
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Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis
Foundation for Health and Policy
PO Box 130
Highland, Maryland 20777
Media contact: 202.548.0133