Dr. Khursheed Jeejeebhoy received his medical degree from the Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore, India in 1959 and completed residency in India and the UK. He has since systematically studied the nutritional requirements in the sick patient. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters in prestigious journals and text books by invitation. He was instrumental in developing an approach for delivering TPN to surgical patients and introduced the concept of Subjective Global Assessment to the world.