Lou Weisbach is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Stadium Capital Financing Group (SCFG), a majority-owned entity of Morgan Stanley Principal Investments. The Chicago based company has created a new form of financing professional sports teams and university athletic departments without debt. He originated the concept of The American Center for Cures in 2000, seeking to create a new pathway towards curing diseases utilizing a focused, accountable, mission based globally integrated approach. He also founded and was Chief Executive Officer of HA-LO Advertising Specialties, which became the world's largest promotional products company. He was the president of Jefferson Trust and past chairman of the Giving Back Fund, an organization that managed foundations for athletes and entertainers. He was named "Man of the Year" by Counselor Magazine and sits on several charitable boards.

Blog Entries by Lou Weisbach

The Ultimate Health Care Solution, and What You Can and Must Do

Posted October 5, 2009 | 10:03 AM (EST)


By Lou Weisbach & Dr. Richard Boxer: Co-originators of American Center for Cures Initiative.

Now is the time to answer the urgent pleas of all Americans: focus on cures. The American Center for Cures (ACC) initiative will strike a permanent, devastating blow to the root cause of the healthcare...

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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Why the Obama Administration Must Appoint an NIH Director Committed to Cures

Posted January 12, 2009 | 01:28 PM (EST)


Reverend Martin Luther King's famous plea of "the fierce urgency of now" was often quoted by President-Elect Barack Obama when describing the importance of Americans realizing that we are at a defining moment in our nation's history. The same could be said about biomedical research and its application to the...

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