{"id":6887,"date":"2013-11-18T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:07:57","slug":"richard-j-stephenson-62cures-gala-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/11\/18\/richard-j-stephenson-62cures-gala-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard J Stephenson &#039;62\/Cures Gala 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard J Stephenson &#8217;62<\/strong> is Chairman and CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America.\u00a0 He is also Gateway for Cancer Research chairman, which held its<strong> <\/strong>annual <a href=\"http:\/\/demand.convio.net\/site\/PageNavigator\/GalaEvent2013\/CuresGalaEvent2013Home.html\">Cures Gala<\/a> on October 26 in Chicago &#8212; raising nearly $2.1 million for clinical trials for cancer treatment.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/11\/Stephenson-richard-cancer-benefit-111813.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6888\" title=\"Stephenson richard   cancer benefit 111813\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/11\/Stephenson-richard-cancer-benefit-111813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Gateway for Cancer Research Chairman Richard J Stephenson with Dr. Stacie Macari and 2010 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze at the annual Cures Gala to benefit cancer research. (Photo courtesy of PRweb.com).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dick founded Cancer Treatment Centers of America\u00ae (CTCA) in 1988, following the death of his mother from cancer.\u00a0 To keep his mother\u2019s spirit alive, Richard created a new model of care, a whole-person cancer treatment providing patient-centered approach to cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard J Stephenson &#8217;62 is Chairman and CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America.\u00a0 He is also Gateway for Cancer Research chairman, which held its annual Cures Gala on October 26 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}