Justin Lord, Ph.D., CMA, FHFMA, is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University Shreveport in the James K. Elrod Health Administration Department. He holds a Ph.D in Administration-Health Services from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a MBA from Jacksonville State University. He is also a Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA) and a Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Prior to pursing a doctorate, he worked for several years as the Finance Director for a multi-state healthcare not-for-profit and also at Honda Manufacturing as a Financial Analyst. His research focuses primarily on the financial management of long-term care organizations and he has been published in the Journal of Healthcare Finance, Inquiry, and Applied Research in Quality of Life.