Dr. Kent, president of the Council on Chiropractic Practice, is a 1973 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic, and a Diplomate and Fellow of the ICA College of Chiropractic Imaging. He was named the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) “Chiropractic Researcher of the Year” in 1991, and he was the recipient of that honor from World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA) in 1994. Dr. Kent was also selected “Chiropractor of the Year” in 1998 by the International Chiropractors Association. He is the Main Representative of the WCA to the Department of Public Information, affiliated with the United Nations, and former chair of the NGO Health Committee, the first chiropractor elected to that position.

He is the author of articles in peer-reviewed and popular journals, a contributor to textbooks, and has served on the postgraduate faculties of several chiropractic colleges.  Dr. Kent is co-founder of the Chiropractic Leadership Alliance (CLA).  An attorney as well as a chiropractor, Dr. Kent is an active member of the State Bar of California, and is admitted as an attorney of the United States District Court, Southern District of California.