Jared Tinklenberg
American psychiatrist
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Tinklenberg held a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Iowa.
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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.
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 was born in 1966, and then to Palo Alto, where their daughter Julie was born in 1968.
In 2017, in honor of his work at Stanford, his daughters endowed the Jared and Mae Tinklenberg Professorship Chair. Tinklenberg died on November 18, 2020, at age 80.