Henry Heimlich Edward Patrick issued a press release portraying himself as the uncredited co-developer of the maneuver. "I would like to get proper credit for what I've done...but I'm not hyper about it." Heimlich claimed to have used his namesake maneuver to rescue a choking victim for the first time on May 23, 2016, when he was aged 96, reportedly saving the life of a fellow resident of his senior living community, Patty Ris. However, in 2003 he told the BBC that he had used it for the first time on a man choking in a restaurant. Heimlich claimed his namesake treatment
Henry Jay Forman the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Redox biology and Medicine. He has served on the Scientific Policy Committee of the American Physiological Society. Henry Jay Forman Henry Jay Forman is Research Professor Emeritus of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of California, Merced. He is a specialist in free radical biology and chemistry, antioxidant defense, and pioneered work in redox signaling including the mechanisms of induced resistance to oxidative stress. He received his degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York and Columbia