Dr. Kent Lord attended University of South Alabama for his undergraduate studies and received his medical degree from the University of South Alabama School of Medicine in 2006. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Medical College of Georgia – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2011.

He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery as well as fellowship trained in foot and ankle and hand/upper extremity, both at University of Alabama Birmingham. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical College of Georgia/Georgia Health Sciences University and is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedics Surgeons.