Jack Fishman (September 30, 1930 – December 7, 2013), born Jacob Fiszman, was a Jewish-American pharmaceutical researcher from Kraków, Poland.
"[2][1] He fled the Nazi occupation of Poland with his parents when he was eight and spent much of his youth in Shanghai, where he attended a Jewish school.
Joy Stampler Fishman had no idea that naloxone existed or that carrying it would have saved her son, let alone that her current husband had helped invent the medication.
[1] He taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and served as director of the Institute for Steroid Research at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
[1] He became president of the Miami, Florida pharmaceutical firm Ivax Corporation and was a consultant to the World Health Organization and the National Science Foundation.