Jad Abumrad

Jad Abumrad

Jad Abumrad is an American radio host and producer. He has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including "On the Media", PRI's "Studio 360" with Kurt Andersen, "Morning Edition", "All Things Considered", "Democracy Now!", and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero". [cite news|url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/bios.html|title=About the Staff|accessdate=2007-05-31|last=Abumrad|first=Jad] He currently hosts and produces "Radio Lab" on WNYC.

Abumrad was raised in Tennessee, where his father, Dr. Naji Abumrad, is a doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. (Dr. Abumrad is featured on the Radio Lab episode entitled "Placebo." [Radio Lab, "Placebo," Show 301, Friday, May 18, 2007. [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18] ] ) He attended Oberlin College, where he studied creative writing and music composition. Before entering radio, he wrote music for films. [cite news|url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/bios.html|title=About the Staff|accessdate=2007-05-31|last=Abumrad|first=Jad] He has said that his background in music has influenced the way he experiments with sound in "Radio Lab". [ [http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2008/02/podcast-radiolabs-jad-abumrad-and.html The Sound of Young America: Podcast: RadioLab's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich ] ]

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