Kenneth Eugene Graham

Kenneth E. Graham, D.O., 84, died peacefully on July 18, 2025, at his home surrounded by his immediate family. He was born to Alfred Eugene Graham and Juanita Shannon Graham on January 5, 1941, in Oklahoma City, OK. After graduation in 1966 from Oklahoma State University, he served from 1966 to 1969 in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Platoon Commander in South Vietnam, seeing combat. After his military service he got his teaching certificate, then taught science and math at the Tulsa Public schools' Project 12 for high school dropouts from 1971 to 1976. During that time, he was actively involved in the peace movement and anti-Vietnam protest and the Church of the Advent. He was proud both of his service in the Marines and his protest of the war in Vietnam.

In 1979 he received his Doctor of Osteopathy from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulsa, then the following year he completed his internship at Hillcrest Osteopathic Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was a life-long student of the work of Dr. William Garner Sutherland, DO, and mentee of Dr. Rollin Becker, pioneers of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field. Dr. Graham had a long career in Osteopathy. Teaching Osteopathic Principals and Manipulative Medicine was his life's work. Dr. Kenneth Graham taught at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OSU-COM) for 24 years and chaired the Osteopathic Principles and Practices Department for many years. For 10 years, he was the Director of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Oklahoma State University Medical Center where he ran an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine inpatient hospital service.

Dr. Graham authored the influential Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Guidelines for the Hospitalized Patient, which demonstrates practical beginning Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine guidelines for treating hospitalized patients. In 2013, he started an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine practice with the Veterans Administration (VA), primarily treating veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder. In February 2015, he started a private practice specializing in treating mild traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome in athletes with head injuries.

Dr. Graham taught advanced courses in osteopathy in the cranial field throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. He was a board member of the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation. Among his awards was the A.T. Still Award of Excellence, presented by Oklahoma Osteopathic Association (2006); the Sutherland Cranial Memorial Lecturer (2011). He was made a Fellow of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy (FCA). He retired in 2022.

He is preceded in death by his parents and sister Sally Lala Needham of Saint Louis, MO. He is survived by his wife Lora Cotton, D.O., his son Christopher Robin Graham of New Jersey, his two grandchildren, Alexa Taylor Graham and Trevor David Graham of New Jersey, and his brother David Graham of Dallas, TX.