Richard J. Stephenson

Richard J Stephenson (born c. 1940) is an American investment banker. He is the founder and chairman of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a for-profit network of five hospitals.

Stephenson is a graduate of Wabash College and Northwestern University School of Law.

Stephenson led an investment group that in 1975 purchased a hospital in Zion, Illinois and renamed it American International Hospital.

Stephenson founded CTCA in 1988 "following his mother’s death from bladder cancer, [and he] ... holds investments in a broad portfolio of other businesses, including finance and real estate companies", according to a 2012 profile in the Washington Post.

Stephenson is married to Dr Stacie J. Stephenson, a physician, integrative medicine lecturer, and philanthropist.

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