R. Armour Forse, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Director of the Surgical Metabolism Laboratory at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Dr. Forse's major research interests are related to energy and nutritional assessment of patients, nutritional support in sepsis and trauma, lipid metabolism during sepsis, adrenergic and insulin receptor function during sepsis, and metabolism and treatment of the morbidly obese. He has co-authored more than 85 papers, 20 book chapters, and 63 published abstracts. He regularly lectures to area medical students and residents and speaks around the country and internationally.

• Chapter 1 Basic Immunology and Its Application to Nutritional Problems Chapter 2 Nutrition and Immunology: Clinician's Approach Chapter 3 Assessment of Nutritional Status Using Conventional Techniques (Anthropometric/Biochemical) and Newer Immune Tests Chapter 4 Tissue Injury, Nutrition, and Immune Function Chapter 5 Perioperative Feeding: Nutrition and Immunity Chapter 6 Aging: Nutrition and Immunity Chapter 7 Food, Diabetes, and Immunology Chapter 8 Cancer: Nutrition and Immunity Chapter 9 Cytokine Influence on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): Action, Prevalence, and Treatment Chapter 10 AIDS: Nutrition and Immunity 12 Chapter 11 Diet and Allograft Rejection Chapter 12 n-6 Fatty Acids Chapter 13 The Role of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Immune Responses During Infection and Inflammation Chapter 14 Structured Lipids Chapter 15 Arginine and Immunity Chapter 16 Nucleotide Nutrition Dependent Immunosurveillance: Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity, y-Interferon Production, and Polymorphonuclear Cell Function Chapter 18 Vitamins Chapter 19 Future Outlook: Nutritional Effects on Immunity Index