Michael Klaper

Michael Klaper
Born	Michael Anthony Klaper
Citizenship	American
Education	University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1972
Occupation	Medical doctor
Known for	Veganism
Medical career
Profession	Family medicine

Michael A. Klaper, M.D., is an American physician, author, and veganism advocate.

Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1972 and served his medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital with the University of British Columbia. He also studied obstetrics at the University of California in San Francisco.

After medical school graduation, Klaper moved among a number of locations, practiced acute care medicine, and eventually became certified in urgent care medicine. In his current public speaking, a number of his anecdotes and gripping stories come from those crisis experiences. Klaper became a vegan in the early 1980s.

He served as director of a vegan health spa in Pompano Beach, Florida from the early 1990s and was featured on the PBS documentary Diet For A New America by John Robbins, currently available for free on YouTube and Vimeo. Klaper was a NASA nutrition adviser and medical consultant on vegan diets for astronauts, since there are no factory farms in outer space and, during long stays in outer space, astronauts' food would need to come from what could be grown in outer space. He also served on the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association and served as the scientific director of the environmental organization EarthSave. In 1995 Klaper received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award.

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