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Jeffrey R. Unger

Jeffrey R. Unger MD, ABFM, FACE, FAAFP

Family Medicine
Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States of America

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Dr. Unger directs the Unger Primary Care Concierge Medical Group in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. He is also the director of metabolic studies at the Catalina Research Institute in Montclair, CA. Dr. Unger’s private practice is devoted to the comprehensive care of patients with diabetes, addiction, mental illness, migraine, and other chronic disease states. He is the medical director at Hathaway Recovery Center in Claremont, CA, caring for patients with opioid, alcohol, and benzodiazepine dependency. Dr. Unger is board certified in family medicine and has published over 250 peer reviewed articles on diabetes, migraine, and pain management. In addition, Dr. Unger has written three medical textbooks on diabetes, including the Diabetes Management in Primary Care -2nd Edition published in December of 2012.

In 2017, Dr. Unger was appointed as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the University California Riverside School of Medicine. Having conducted over 120 clinical trials, Dr. Unger has been selected as one of the few family physicians to ever oversee a cardiovascular outcomes study (LEADER- 2016). Dr. Unger is also the primary investigator for the global Lira-Prime study, the results of which will be published in 2019. Dr. Unger is a fellow of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and has served as a consulting physician for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club as well as the World Wrestling Federation.
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