Lloyd Saxon Graham

Who is Lloyd Saxon Graham?

L. Saxon Graham was a prominent American epidemiologist. Born in Buffalo, NY, Graham completed undergraduate training at Amherst College and earned his PhD from Yale University in 1951. As Chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo, Dr. Graham authored work of enduring national importance on the nutritional epidemiology of cancer. Dr. Graham was author or co-author of over 200 major papers. Dr. Graham was a founding Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and the namesake of two distinguished research prizes at the University of Buffalo, the Saxon Graham Award and Saxon Graham Research Prize, and is commemorated by an ongoing Saxon Graham lecture series on public health. Dr. Graham's father-in-law was prominent physician Hugh Jackson Morgan, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University.