- Michael Klaper
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Michael A. Klaper, M.D., is an American physician, author and vegan.
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Biography
Early years and education
Klaper spent much of his childhood vacations on his uncle’s dairy farm in Wisconsin.[1]
Dr. 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.[2]
Career
After graduation Klaper moved between a number of locations, practising acute care medicine, and eventually becoming certified in urgent care medicine. Following a desire to lead a less violent life, Klaper became vegan in the early 1980s.[3]
He served as director of a vegan health spa in Pompano Beach, Florida from the early 1990s, where he observed the healing powers of plant-based nutrition, and was featured on the PBS documentary Diet For A New America by John Robbins.[4] However financial realities required him to return to urgent care medicine, which led him to practice in Maui, Hawaii between 1995 and 2006, and Whangarei, New Zealand between 2006 and 2009.[5] In 2010 he returned to nutritional medicine and currently serves on the medical staff at the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California.[6]
His books include Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple and Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet.
See also
- Neal D. Barnard
- Caldwell Esselstyn
- Joel Fuhrman
- Michael Greger
- Vegan nutrition
References
- ^ David Horton. "Interview with Michael Klaper". http://www.abolitionist-online.com/09_michael_klaper.shtml.
- ^ "Nutritional Education Institute: Meet our Faculty". https://www.nutritionaleducation.com/the-institute/meet-our-faculty.
- ^ "Dr. Michael Klaper: Vegan Health". http://insearchofsimplicity.com/2009/04/29/dr-michael-klaper-a-vegan-physician-on-voices-from-the-north/.
- ^ "About Dr. Klaper". http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/bio.htm.
- ^ "Famed Vegan MD Michael Klaper Moves Practice to California". December 2009. http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/12/famed-vegan-md-michael-klaper-moves-practice-to-california.html.
- ^ "The Doctors at TrueNorth Health Center". http://www.healthpromoting.com/doctors.
External links
- Website
- A Diet For All Reasons - Video - one hour presentation by Dr. Michael Klaper, 1993
Categories:- Living people
- American physicians
- University of British Columbia alumni
- University of Illinois at Chicago alumni
- American vegans
- American medical biography stubs
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