James Richard Leininger | |
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Born | 1944 Warsaw, Indiana |
Residence | San Antonio, Texas |
Citizenship | United States |
Education | Indiana University (BA, MD) |
Occupation | Physician, founder of Kinetic Concepts |
Net worth |
US $ 1.3 billion (est.) (May 2015) |
Board member of | Patrick Henry College |
Spouse(s) | Cecelia Leininger |
Children | Four children |
Website | www.jamesrleininger.com |
James Richard Leininger (born 1944) is an American physician, businessman and conservative and Christian activist from San Antonio, Texas.
Reared in Indiana and Florida, Leininger attended Indiana University in Indianapolis, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and an M.D. in 1969. Following a two-year internship at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, he completed post-graduate courses at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., and Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he also lectured. He later settled in San Antonio and taught at the University of Texas Health Science Center from 1972-1973.