Orange County · Los Angeles

You don’t have to do this alone.

SCLC North is the northern practice of Southern California GI and Liver Centers. Same medical director. Same HALO process. Four offices north of the county line.

Request an appointment How HALO works

Inner circle of disease. Outer circle of health.

HALO is Health and Liver Optimization. Four steps. Then we stay.

History and physicalA board-certified hepatologist takes it. Not a handoff to someone who has never opened your chart.

RecordsWe read what came before so you do not repeat imaging, biopsies, or the same story.

DiagnosticsFibroScan, Hepatus ultrasound, labs. Tests that change the plan. Not a stack for its own sake.

A plan with youMedicine, food, movement, weight, and honest talk about alcohol. A path you can keep.

HALO Liver The organ we treat

HALO Metabolic health Diabetes, weight, heart

Liver. Metabolic health. Nutrition. Your life. Each one is staffed.

Dr. Tarek Hassanein

MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD · Medical director

Transplant hepatologist. UC San Diego professor.

Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology. Viral hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, and care before and after transplant. He helped establish three major liver transplant programs.

That standard is now in Garden Grove, Century City, Tarzana, and Panorama City. The chart is read. A hepatologist takes the history. The plan includes diabetes, weight, heart, alcohol, and the life you want back.

Meet the team

Patients, not a promise paragraph.

These are real people from Southern California GI and Liver Centers. Same medical director. Same HALO process. Results vary.

Patient story · sister practice

What we treat

The same list as livercenters.com, for the northern offices.

01 Viral hepatitis, including chronic HBV and HCV
02 Fatty liver, MASLD, NASH, obesity, and metabolic disease
03 Alcohol-related liver disease
04 Autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease
05 Liver cancer evaluation and treatment planning
06 Transplant evaluation and lifelong follow-up
07 General GI: GERD, Barrett’s, IBD, and weight management
08 HALO, Health and Liver Optimization

The liver can regenerate. We treat the person around it.

Fatty liver, diabetes, weight, sleep, and heart disease travel together. FibroScan and advanced ultrasound show fat and stiffness without jumping to biopsy. Then food, movement, and medicine around your actual week.

That is the fatty-liver program from fattylivercenters.com. SCLC North is that program north of the county line.

Fatty liver care