She explained, "The new normal while Jay was sick was that my entire focus was on him. "Jay was sick [for] nine months and that was excruciating." I think they would have been friends. January 9, 1956-January 24, 1998,” she captioned the post.

Jay Monahan and Katie Couric The Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health is a clinical center of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The Center is named in honor of Jay Monahan – the late husband of Katie Couric.Jay Monahan was a criminal defense attorney, television legal commentator, and civil war enthusiast. Couric, who also lost her sister to pancreatic cancer, has dedicated much of her time to cancer research and education. People is on Community! Couric has been a television host all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career she was an Assignment Editor for CNN. His greatest gift has been allowing me to love them both.” "How romantic!" Yeah, the prep isn’t that fun but it’s A LOT better than being diagnosed with colon cancer!!! The journalist shared a sweet photo of Monahan posing with one of their two daughters, “Jay Monahan. John Paul Monahan 3d, a lawyer and NBC News legal analyst, died Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014. These have the potential to develop into cancer and that’s why screening is SO IMPORTANT!

Katie Couric, who also lost her sister to pancreatic cancer, has dedicated much of her time to cancer research and education "The grief started there," Couric told WNYC's "Death, Sex & Money" podcast of her husband Jay Monahan's diagnosis. Katie met Jay when she was a correspondent for Today and he was lawyer … The Monahan Center is a state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary model of integrated patient care, focusing on prevention, screening, treatment, support, research, and health education for individuals who have or are at They have no choice but to go on," during her Monahan's passing was very difficult for Couric and her family, but she has used her experiences to help countless other people in similar circumstances.© 2020 NickiSwift.com.

this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. The Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health is named in memory of Jay Monahan, the late husband of Katie Couric, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor. She’s the co-founder of Stand Up 2 Cancer, the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance and the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, and told PEOPLE in 2015 that she “I hope he would think that the work that I’m doing – whether it’s in colon cancers or in other cancers, to save future Jay Monahans from experiencing the same fate that he did – is worthwhile and important,” she said.Although Couric found love again with John Molner, whom she “I’ve had 19 Thanksgivings and Christmases since my husband died,” she wrote in a piece for She added, “I now have a new husband, a wonderful person I adore, who is warm and wise and so funny. Molner and I had his and hers colonoscopies on Friday (how romantic!) Couric reflected on that time during a 2003 HealthDay  interview, sharing, “My husband found out he had colon cancer when he was basically doubled over with pain in his abdomen. In 1998, Katie Couric's husband Jay Monahan died from colon cancer at age 42, according to  People. More importantly, he was a father, a husband, a brother, a son, a friend.