Jared Grantham (1936–2017)

In Remembrance of Dr. Jared James Grantham, JASN's Founding Editor-in-Chief.

Jared James Grantham, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), passed away peacefully on January 22, 2017 surrounded by his family and their love, and eulogized by an outpouring of remembrances and tributes as his passing became known. Born (1936), raised, and educated in Kansas, and with a professional career essentially centered at the Universi...

Jared A Lee

F**k Jared Diamond

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The case of Jared.

Jared is a 31-year-old Caucasian man who was recently discharged from an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization (with a history of eight prior ones since age 17 when he first tried to kill himself via overdose). He was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by his mother as far back as he can remember, and was raped by a male teacher in adolescence. His family of origin was upper middle cl...

Breakfast with Jared

It’s a cloudy day in May, and I am visiting Jared Diamond in his neo-Georgian house near UCLA. The kitchen table is laden with golden raspberries, jewel-like tomatoes, Greek yogurt, and honeyed halvah. For a moment, I miss the rabbit (now deceased) that once lived in a hutch at the end of the room. But the tiny grief passes quickly. Far more engrossing is the man before me: a scholar and friend...