Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow
UCSF
Amélie Pinard, PhD, is a 2nd year Laboratory Genetics and Genomics clinical fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Pinard earned her PhD with highest honors in Human Genetics from Aix-Marseille University (France) in 2016 where her doctoral work was titled “Marfan syndrome and related disorders and identification of novel genes involved in bicuspid aortic valve”. Following her graduation, she continued working on vascular genetics as a postdoctoral researcher in the medical genetics division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX under the supervision of Dr. Dianna Milewicz. Dr. Pinard was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association allowing her to focus her work on the “Identification and characterization of novel genes for Moyamoya disease” as well as several travel awards to present her results at annual international meetings including a Brandt Young Scholarship at the 10th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference. She has published 21 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. In July 2022, she started her first year as a Laboratory Genetics and Genomics clinical fellow in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (ACGME accredited LGG program) under the directorship of Dr. Jessica Van Ziffle. She was awarded the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine 2023 Next Generation Fellowship Award.