Michael A. Klaper, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He has practiced acute care medicine in California, Hawaii, Canada, Florida and New Zealand. 

After a fifty-year career as a primary care physician, Dr. Klaper’s driving passion has become keeping people out of hospitals and off of operating tables with a health-promoting diet and lifestyle. A diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Klaper is a gifted teacher whose nutritional wisdom and guidance is sought by both patients and colleagues alike.

A long-time radio host and a pilot, Dr. Klaper has served as nutrition advisor to NASA’s programs for space colonists on the Moon and Mars and on the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Students Association. 

On his websites, DoctorKlaper.com visitors can find the latest nutrition information through his numerous articles and videos and at Movingmedforward.com you can learn about the non-profit Moving Medicine Forward initiative to promote applied nutrition being taught in medical schools.