parents: David Klaper, DDS (father); Jean T. Klaper(mother); Robert D. Klaper (brother); Cynthia Lee Pararo (ex-wife); Alese Jones (wife since April 8, 2014)
Michael A. Klaper (July 19, 1947) is an American physician, vegan health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of vegan medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.
His three books were authored during his time with Gentle World in Umatilla, Florida.
In 1987 Klaper appeared on the game show Jeopardy! and won $11,000.[8]
Career
After graduating from medical school Klaper moved among a number of locations, practiced acute care medicine, and eventually became certified in urgent care medicine. He became a vegan in 1981.[9] He is a medical consultant for the North American Vegetarian Society[10] and has spoken at their Vegetarian Summerfest in 2012[11] and 2018.[12] Klaper has spoken at several other national and international vegan, vegetarian, and natural health conferences and events.[13][14][15]
Klaper maintained a medical practice in Maui, Hawaii, between 1995 and 2006, and practiced medicine in Whangārei, New Zealand between 2006 and 2009.[9] In 2009, he relocated to Northern California, where as of 2011 he became staff physician and medical consultant at the nutritionally-based TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa,[18][19] where he is now on the board of directors of the TrueNorth Health Foundation.[20] He is licensed to practice medicine in California and Hawaii and now is affiliated with the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.[21]
His books include Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple and Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet. He has appeared in several films related to vegan diet and practice, including Eat This! (2005), Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014), and What the Health (2017).[22]
Klaper is on the advisory board, and regular contributor to the quarterly publication Naked Food Magazine.[23]
In the summer of 1992, he was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame of the North American Vegetarian Society.[24]
^"Jean Klaper Obituary". Chicago Tribune. January 8, 2001. Section 2, page 6. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
^"Obituaries, Robert D Klaper" (Suburban ed.). Chicago: the Daily Herald. September 18, 1992. Section 5, page 2. Retrieved August 25, 2018 – via newspaperarchive.com.
^ abcd"Nutritional researcher to speak at NIU". Vol. 120, no. 203. De Kalb, IL: the Daily Chronicle. September 29, 1999. p. 9. Archived from the original on August 25, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
^Kahlenberg, Richard (September 5, 1991). "Green Gospel". Los Angeles Times (Ventura County ed.). J14. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
