Klazura played soccer in the NCAA for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He spent five years with the Fighting Irish where he appeared in 38 matches. In his fifth year he was named co-captain.
Following the 2013 MLS season, Klazura and the Whitecaps did not come to terms on a new contract. That year, Klazura traveled to Zimbabwe to play professional soccer for Bantu Tshintsha Guluva Rovers.[6] He also worked for the GrassRootSoccer Organization to educate children on the risks of HIV and AIDS.[7] Klazura began medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in August 2014.[8] In 2018 he graduated from medical school and began post-graduate training in general surgery at Loyola University Medical Center.[9]
During a research sabbatical from 2020 to 2022 as the Global Surgery Fellow at UIC and Health Equity Fellow at UCSF he earned his Master of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and completed a Fulbright Fogarty Fellowship in Public Health.[10]
