General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
• Nutritional Counseling
• Primary Care
  Wendy Ard has been a physician assistant for over 30 years with broad clinical experience in both private practice and academic settings. She started her career in Gastroenterology and then practiced in internal medicine, cardiology, and primary care before returning to G.I medicine.
• Colonoscopy
  Colonoscopy lets the physician look inside your entire large intestine, from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way up through the colon to the lower end of the small intestine.
• Constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  A native southern Californian, Dr. Oren Zaidel received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley. He then returned to southern California and received his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at USC. Dr. Zaidel trained in Internal Medicine and completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.  Dr. Zaidel is a board certified gastroenterologist who specializes in all aspects of gastrointestinal and liver disorders.  He has a special interest in irritable bowel syndrome and motility and has dedicated his practice toward advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy.
• Diarrhea

Gynecologists

• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr Tran is an internationally renowned liver specialist and was the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Geffen UCLA School of Medicine. She has been triple board certified by the ABIM in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology.
• Gastroenterology
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• Colon Cancer
  Colorectal cancer, also known as colon cancer, develops in either the large intestine or the rectum. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.
• Endoscopy
  Upper endoscopy enables the physician to look inside the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (first part of the small intestine). The procedure might be used to discover the reason for swallowing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, reflux, bleeding, indigestion, abdominal pain, or chest pain. Upper endoscopy is also called EGD, which stands for esophagogastroduodenoscopy. For the procedure the physician will use a thin, flexible, lighted tube called an endoscope. You will be sedated during the exam. The endoscope transmits an image of the inside of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum, so the physician can carefully examine the lining of these organs. The scope also blows air into the stomach; this expands the folds of tissue and makes it easier for the physician to examine the stomach.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a procedure using an endoscope that has ultrasound capability.  This procedure allows visualization of the structure beneath the mucosal lining of the stomach and also the structure immediately around the stomach such as the bile duct and pancreas.  In some instances this procedure is also used in visualizing  growth in the rectum.
• MRI
• Radiology
  Most polyps cause no symptoms. Larger ones can cause blood in the stools, but even they are usually asymptomatic. Therefore, the best way to detect polyps is by screening individuals with no symptoms. Several other screening techniques are available: testing stool specimens for traces of blood, performing sigmoidoscopy to look into the lower third of the colon, or using a radiology test such as a barium enema. If one of these tests finds or suspects polyps, your doctor will generally recommend colonoscopy to remove them. Because colonoscopy is the most accurate way to detect polyps, many experts now recommend colonoscopy as a screening method so that any polyps found or suspected can be removed during the same procedure.
• X-Rays
• Computed Tomography
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation Therapy

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  Education And Training: Dr. Cho attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received his Bachelor of Science in cell and structural biology with a minor in chemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School in 2001 and then completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at UCLA Medical Center in 2004. He continued at UCLA Medical Center with his gastroenterology fellowship training which he completed in 2008. Dr. Cho joined the faculty at UCLA in the Division of Digestive Diseases in 2008 upon completion of his fellowship training. His practice had been based at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, where he had been focused on the growth of his thriving clinical practice. He was also actively involved in the clinical training of the gastroenterology fellows, and residents both in internal medicine and general surgery. After 11 years at UCLA, he achieved the rank of Associate Clinical Professor. As both a student and teacher at UCLA for 18 years, Dr. Cho has strived to be an astute clinician and a strong patient advocate. Dr. Cho joined South Bay Gastroenterology Medical Group in 2019. He resides in Manhattan Beach with his wife Julie, and his two young daughters. He enjoys being an active participant of the South Bay community and getting to know his patients on a personal level.

Dermatologists

• Ulcer

Allergists

• Allergies