WINKLER

Regulatory Actions against Juergen Winkler, M.D.

Juergen Winkler, M.D., who operates Quantum Functional Medicine in Carlsbad, California, has been disciplined twice by California’s medical licensing board. In 1999, he was accused of aiding and abetting an unlicensed practitioner (Ravi Devgan, M.D.) treat six patients with advanced cancer and failing to maintain adequate records of what he did. The charges were settled with a stipulation under which Winkler was reprimanded and ordered to complete a course in medical record-keeping and to pay $2,907 for the cost of the proceedings. (Devgan, who practiced mainly in Canada, was disciplined several times and in 2003 had his license revoked for exploiting and inappropriately treating cancer patients.) In 2011, as shown below, Winkler was accused of misleading advertising, dishonesty, negligence, and failure to maintain adequate records …