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to decrease disability progres-
sion. 
In 1999, he began working 
at Millenium/Takeda, where 
he was a leader of the clinical 
team that in 2014 was able 
to achieve marketing autho-
rization and patient access 
for Entyvio, a treatment of 
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative 
colitis. 
Although he retired in 2018, 
he began consulting for some 
companies, including Takeda. 
Shortly after moving to New 
England, he and Gloria 
became U.S. citizens. 

JEWISH ROOTS
In his memoir, Fox who was 
born and raised in Montreal, 
delves into his personal life 
and strong Jewish roots. His 
parents, Phyliss and Nathan 
Fox, were devoted parents 
— Nathan, his father, aspired 
to be a doctor, but because 
there was a quota on Jews, he 
went to pharmacy school and 
became a pharmacist. They 
maintained a Jewish house-
hold for Fox, his younger 
sister, Rosanne Ain (now a 
retired teacher and IT leader 
living in Toronto) and young-
er brother, Allan Fox (now a 
renowned Canadian neurora-
diologist). 
At that time in Canada 
there was no separation of 
church and state, and Fox 
went to a Protestant school 
where he had to recite the 
Lord’s Prayer and sing hymns. 
But to reinforce his Jewish 
identity, he went to Hebrew 
school five days a week, had a 

bar mitzvah and joined B’nai 
B’rith. “My neighborhood was 
predominately Jewish and 
70% of our class was Jewish, 
even though it was a Christian 
school,
” he says. 
Retired, much of Fox’s free 
time is spent traveling, taking 
classes at a local community 
college and his temple, and 
enjoying his three daughters 
and seven grandchildren. 
His eldest daughter Caroline 
Fox (an endocrinologist and 
a biotech company senior 
executive) lives in Boston with 
her husband and their three 
children. His daughter Sharon 
Fox Spielman (a partner at a 
private equity company) lives 
in Westchester, New York, 
with her husband and their 
two boys. And his youngest 
daughter, Joanna (a principal 
in a Sephardic day school in 
Toronto) lives in Toronto with 
her husband and their two 
boys. 
All three daughters, who 
became bat mitzvahs in 
Ann Arbor, earned their 
undergraduate degrees at the 
University of Michigan. 
Fox hopes that his book is 
an inspiration to people who 
face adversity. “For people 
who experience a calamitous 
event in their life, I want them 
to know that they, too, can 
get through it. This book is 
dedicated to them, and to give 
them hope for recovery.
” 

The Flashing Light: A Medical Mystery 

Memoir can be found on Amazon and 

Barnes & Noble. 

“FOR PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE 
A CALAMITOUS EVENT IN THEIR 
LIFE, I WANT THEM TO KNOW 
THAT THEY, TOO, CAN GET 

THROUGH IT.” 

— IRVING FOX

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