[2] Tinklenberg was a professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
[4][5] 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.
Tinklenberg was also a long-time member of First Congregational Church in Palo Alto, and he enjoyed running marathons in his younger years, birdwatching more recently, and hiking with his family throughout his life.
[6] In 2017, in honor of his work at Stanford, his daughters endowed the Jared and Mae Tinklenberg Professorship Chair.