Bay Area Genetic Counseling
​Amy Vance, MS, LCGC
Amy Vance is a Board Certified and Licensed genetic counselor and founder of Bay Area Genetic Counseling. She is respected as a leader and innovator among genetic counselors. She has provided genetic counseling since 1991, with expertise in prenatal, pediatric, adult, cancer, and reproductive genetics.
Ms. Vance's professional experience includes providing prenatal genetic counseling at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She also coordinated the genetic counseling and testing for their regional Cystic Fibrosis clinic. She was a consultant to several gamete donor programs, providing genetic screening and family history risk assessment. In 1995 she was invited to join the genetics department at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. While at Kaiser, she provided genetic counseling for prenatal, pediatric, adult, and cancer genetics patients. She coordinated the medical student genetics education, regional genetic clinics, and served on numerous regional committees charged with program development, quality assurance, and ongoing communication with the regional genetics departments. In 2000, she became a clinical service product manager at GeneSage, Inc., a company that promoted genetic healthcare. In 2001, Ms. Vance founded Bay Area Genetic Counseling, a private practice genetic counseling and consulting service. She has consulted for the March of Dimes as well as local physicians and now focuses mainly on Assisted Reproduction, providing genetic counseling services to IVF clinics and gamete donor agencies.
Ms. Vance has served on regional and national committees for the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). She was chair of the Bay Area Coalition of Genetic Counselors from 1997 to 1999 and was a NSGC State Representative from 1994 to 2001. She was an officer for the Genetic Counseling Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) from 2004 to 2012. She was the Chair of the NSGC Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) SIG from 2007 to 2009. The Program in Genetic Counseling at the University of Cincinnati awarded her a full scholarship for her graduate work. She is a member of NSGC, ASRM, Cancer Risk and ART Genetic Counselor's SIGs of the NSGC, and ASRM Genetic Counseling SIG. She is a member of the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS) and Pacific Coast Reproductive Society. She is a Genetic Counseling Advisor for Good Start Genetics and the Genetic Counselor Advisor for SEEDS.
Ms. Vance has published numerous papers and abstracts, as well as 10 entries in the Gail Encyclopedia of Genetic Conditions. She has written articles and has delivered many invited presentations at national and international meetings. She has taught courses for the Genetic Counseling Program at the University of California, Berkeley, has supervised students from various genetic counseling programs, and has mentored a nurse practitioner in cancer risk assessment. She received the ASRM Star Award in 2015 for 10 years of consecutive presentations at the ASRM annual meeting.
Ms. Vance's ongoing area of interest in research has been on the importance of family history risk assessment and genetic counseling for gamete donors and couples prior to IVF. She has presented this research at numerous regional and national meetings.
Ms. Vance received her BA at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and her MS in Genetic Counseling from the University of Cincinnati. She is Board Certified in Genetic Counseling by the American Board of Genetic Counselors and Licensed by the California Department of Public Health.
Amy is fluent in Spanish, and enjoys cycling, yoga, horseback riding, and spending time with friends and family.