Quinton D. Studer, is a Pensacola, Florida philanthropist and businessman best known as the co-owner of the minor baseball team, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, and as the CEO and founder of the private health care consulting company, Studer Group. Modern Healthcare rated him 89th on its "Top 100 Most Powerful" in 2002. He authored eight books about healthcare management of which seven are self-published. The registered nurse's union, National Nurses United, alleges that Studer Group utilizes management techniques designed to deskill and automate nurse's interactions with patients to fight increasing nurse-to-patient ratios and to replace nurses with lesser-skilled healthcare workers. Cleveland Clinic Foundation filed suit aagainst Quinton D. Studer and Barry G. Porter in 2012 for copyright infringement of software that automated the process of telephoning patients called the Discharge Call Manager. The Cleveland Clinic is seeking monetary damages and a permanent injunction freezing monies received by the defendants. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1951 in United States of America (Age 73)