Butte doctor joins local pediatric practice

Pediatrician Dr. Ken Graham joined Sunny View Pediatrics in Kalispell in January following more than 15 years practicing in Butte.

Graham becomes the fourth doctor at the Kalispell pediatric practice.

“I’m a Montana boy,” he said. “I grew up in Butte, Montana, and that’s where I met my wife and got married.”

 He received his undergraduate degree in microbiology from Montana State University and worked for the National Institutes of Health prior to medical training at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque and serving a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of New Mexico.

After his medical training, Graham was an Air Force phusician for three years.

In August 1997, he and his family moved back home to Butte where he practiced at Rocky Mountain Children’s Clinic. Graham served seven years as chief of pediatrics and most recently as chief of the medical staff for St. James Healthcare.

He followed his passion for teaching by serving as director of the hospital’s pediatric education program at St. James. Graham was the lead instructor for Pediatric Advanced Life Support and the Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

He and his wife, Susan, have four daughters and a new grandson. They enjoy skiing, backpacking, boating, fly fishing and tennis.

“We just love the Glacier area,” he said. “That’s what brought us up here.”

At Sunny View Pediatrics, he joins Drs. Wallace Wilder, Lynn Dykstra and Mike Schwaller and nurse practitioner Valerie Beebe.