Dana A. Forgione,
Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CFE

is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is the Janey S. Briscoe Endowed Chair in the Business of Health and Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). UTSA is the second largest doctoral granting institution in the University of Texas System with 28,000 students, and the Department of Accounting is separately accredited by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine and an Adjoint Professor of Public Health, both at the University of Texas.

Dr. Forgione previously served as Director of the Center for Accounting, Auditing & Tax Studies (CAATS), and as Director of the School of Accounting at Florida International University (FIU)—the largest accounting program in the United States. Before that, he served as advisor to the MBA Healthcare Management Program at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, and held a joint appointment at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland where he taught in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Dr. Forgione is also a member Emeritus of the international Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

He is a consultant to healthcare organizations and analyzed the financial and operating performance of more than 5,500 hospitals throughout the US. His litigation support and consulting work was used twice by the US Congress in national healthcare policy deliberations, and by the Texas Attorney General in landmark hospital charity care legislation. He is founder and Director of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management, Ltd., one of the world’s first, primarily Internet-based professional associations. He is also the Senior Editor of Research in Healthcare Financial Management, and a columnist for the Journal of Health Care Finance.

Dr. Forgione developed and teaches a Doctoral Research Seminar in Government & Nonprofit Accounting, as well as graduate level courses in Medicare Regulation, and Accounting for Healthcare Organizations. He has conducted professional training programs on Medicare Regulation, Fraud and Abuse Regulations, Physician Self-Referral Prohibitions, Governmental Auditing, Forensic Accounting, Electronic Data Recovery, and related issues to hundreds of accountants, auditors, regulators, fraud examiners, US Internal Revenue Service agents, physicians, surgeons, allied healthcare professionals, and US Veterans Administration Inspectors General.

He has more than 103 professional publications, 37 editorial and reviewing roles, 111 instances of television debates, national radio network commentary and other news / media coverage to his credit. His books are used in more than 75 colleges and universities throughout the US that promote ethics, technology skills, and award-winning creativity and innovation in the accounting curriculum. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World (2002–present), Who’s Who in America (2002–present), Who’s Who in Finance and Industry (2001–present), Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare (2000–present), and Who’s Who in American Education (2005–present). He earned his BBA in accounting and information systems, MBA, MS in accounting, and Ph.D. in accounting all at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.