Jared Tinklenberg

{{short description|American psychiatrist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Jared Tinklenberg

| other_names = Jared R. Tinklenberg

| fields = Psychiatry

| workplaces = Stanford University School of Medicine
VA Palo Alto Health Care System

| children = Karla Jurvetson

}}

Jared R. Tinklenberg was an American professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Education

Tinklenberg held a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Iowa.{{Cite web|url=https://med.stanford.edu/svalz/staff/jtinklenberg.html|title=Jared R. Tinklenberg|website=Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Center|language=en|access-date=2018-12-02}}

Career

Tinklenberg was a professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health Research and Education at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Tinklenberg was a co-principal investigator and co-director of the Stanford/VA California Alzheimer's Disease Center.

= Research =

Tinklenberg's areas of research included the psychopharmacology of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Awards and honors

Tinklenberg was a Fellow emeritus of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.{{Cite web|url=https://acnp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018ACNPMembership.pdf|title=ACNP 2018 Membership|date=January 2018|website=American College of Neuropsychopharmacology|access-date=December 2, 2018}} In 2017, to honor Tinklenberg's 50-year career as a medical school professor, his daughter Karla Jurvetson helped fund the construction of the new Stanford Medical Center and endowed the Jared and Mae Tinklenberg Professorship in her parents' names.{{cite web|url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/12/seven-stanford-faculty-appointed-to-endowed-professorships.html|title=Seven Stanford Medicine faculty members appointed to endowed professorships|last1=Bach|first1=Becky|website=Stanford Medicine|access-date=1 October 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sumcrenewal.org/projects/project-overview/|title=Stanford University Medical Center Renewal Project|website=Stanford Medicine|publisher=Stanford Medicine|access-date=1 October 2018}}

Personal life

Tinklenberg was born on November 25, 1939, in South Dakota, the son of a Christian minister who worked for the U.S. Navy. He met his wife, Mae (Van der Weerd) at the University of Iowa while he was in medical school, and they married in 1964. They moved to New Haven, CT for his internship, where their daughter Karla Jurvetson was born in 1966, and then to Palo Alto, where their daughter Julie Tinklenberg was born in 1968.{{Cite web |title=Almanac Online - Lasting Memories - Jerry Tinklenberg's memorial |url=https://www.almanacnews.com/obituaries/memorials/jerry-tinklenberg?o=6528 |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.almanacnews.com}}

In 2017, in honor of his work at Stanford, his daughters endowed the Jared and Mae Tinklenberg Professorship Chair.{{Cite web |title=Almanac Online - Lasting Memories - Jerry Tinklenberg's memorial |url=https://obituaries.almanacnews.com/obituaries/memorials/jerry-tinklenberg?o=6528 |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=obituaries.almanacnews.com}} Tinklenberg died on November 18, 2020, at age 80.{{Cite web |title=Almanac Online - Lasting Memories - Jerry Tinklenberg's memorial |url=https://www.almanacnews.com/obituaries/memorials/jerry-tinklenberg?o=6528 |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.almanacnews.com}}

Selected works

=Books=

  • {{Cite book|title=Marijuana and Health Hazards: Methodological Issues in Issues in Current Research|last=Tinklenberg|first=Jared|date=1975|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780323160490|language=en}}Reviews of Marijuana and Health Hazards: Methodological Issues in Issues in Current Research:
  • {{Cite journal|last=Brecher|first=Edward M.|author-link=Edward M. Brecher|date=1976|title=Review|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=51|issue=4|pages=563|jstor=2823232|doi=10.1086/409703}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Byck|first=Robert|date=1977|title=Review|journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|volume=50|issue=2|pages=222|issn=0044-0086|pmc=2595385}}

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