Jeffrey R. Unger, MD, FAAFP, FACE
Diplomate, American Board of Family Practice
Fellow, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, UC Riverside School of Medicine
Director, Unger Concierge Primary Care Medical Group
Director, Metabolic Studies; Catalina Research Institute
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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, where he cares 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 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). He 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.
While working as the team physician for the World Wrestling Federation, Dr. Unger was thrown through the set of Wrestlemania VII by 2 very strong and powerful female wrestlers, then hit over the head with a chair thrown by Hulk Hogan. This is when he decided that it might be best to simply develop his skills as a diabetologist rather than a mixed martial artist!
To learn more about Dr. Unger, visit http://ungerprimarycare.com/.
