Dr. Kozeka

Born in Pittsburgh, PA on September 28, 1954

Departed on December 1, 2019 and resided in Fairview, Tennessee

Kenneth C. Kozeka, PhD born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1954) passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 1, 2019 while at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee from an ischemic stroke he suffered that previous Friday. He was 65 years old. He is survived by his loving wife, Julia Bryant, in Fairview, TN and many pets. They have been married since 1983.

He attended the University of Pittsburgh to earn a bachelor's degree (1976) in anatomy and physiology, a self-designed major, and a second major in psychology. With a full scholarship, he attended medical school at the same university and earned his PhD (1983) from the School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. During graduate medical school, he conducted research in fetal muscle and nerve development, published scientific papers, and held a two-year appointment teaching anatomy and histology at the medical school. After graduation, he accepted an academic appointment at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Physical Therapy where he taught human anatomy and kinesiology, and conducted clinical research in kinesiology at the Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center. Thereafter, he served academia as chief academic officer for divisions of science and the health professions at several community colleges throughout the country. During his academic career he received numerous awards and grants.

Like many other inventors, his childhood hobby was taking things apart to learn how they worked. Throughout his lifetime, he pursued his interest in inventing. His inventions include a Mechanical Musculoskeletal Muscle Model manufactured by Medical Plastics, TV goggles, 3D image generator, and a transdermal reservoir delivery system. Major manufacturers and retailers such as Minami International, Kurt S. Adler, Forte Technologies, Core Enterprises, and Consumer Products Group consulted Kenneth for engineering design and product development.

More recently, his interests had expanded to nutrition and the use of plant-based diets in reversing chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease. He published and sold on Amazon two books on how to switch to a plant-based diet to cure chronic diseases and has been helping the sick with a plant-based diet therapy and guidance from his website (www.cureyourself.us).

For more than 30 years, he has worked on developing a clean and inexpensive source of energy but unfortunately died before completing his working prototype.

Dr. Kozeka will be missed by his family and the many students he helped over the years.