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Amy Yang, MD, Medical Genetics, Portland, OR

Amy C Yang MD

Medical Genetics•Portland, OR

Clinical Genetics

Assistant Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU

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  • 707 SW Gaines StPortland, OR 97239

  • Phone+1 503-494-7859

  • Fax+1 503-494-4447

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Summary

  • Amy Yang, MD, is a Medical Genetics specialist based in Portland, OR with a subspecialty in Clinical Genetics. She graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 2006 and pursued her residency in Pediatric and Medical Genetics between 2006 and 2011 at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her academia extended to Assistant Professor roles at Icahn School of Medicine and then at Oregon Health and Science University. She has notable experience working with genetic diseases like Fabry disease, inborn errors of metabolism, neurodevelopmental disabilities, mucopolysaccharidoses, Pompe and Gaucher disease. She has made significant contributions to her field through publications on various topics in journals like Genetics in Medicine, Molecular Genetics, and Metabolism Reports.

Education & Training

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiResidency, Medical Genetics and Genomics, 2009 - 2011
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Kravis Children's
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Kravis Children'sResidency, Pediatrics, 2006 - 2009
  • New York University School of Medicine
    New York University School of MedicineClass of 2006
  • Rutgers College of Rutgers University
    Rutgers College of Rutgers UniversityBA, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, 1997 - 2001

Certifications & Licensure

  • OR State Medical License
    OR State Medical License 2018 - 2027
  • WA State Medical License
    WA State Medical License 2022 - 2027
  • AK State Medical License
    AK State Medical License 2018 - 2024
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 2007 - 2019
  • Pediatrics
    American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
  • Clinical Genetics and Genomics
    American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics Clinical Genetics and Genomics

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • The Judith P. Willner Award Recipient 2011
  • Scholar Henry Rutgers, 2001
  • Fellowship Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1999

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • The New York Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Lysosomal Storage Diseases: Report of the First 65,000 Infants  
    Lissette Estrella, Chunli Yu, S Gabriel Kupchik, Sean M Bailey, Randi Wasserman, Ian Holzman, Suhas M Nafday, Robert J Desnick, Amy Yang, Nature
  • Myoclonus in Ataxia-telangiectasia  
    Termsarasab P, Yang AC, Frucht SJ, Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov, 1/1/2015
  • Intermediate Phenotypes of ATP1A3 Mutations: Phenotype-genotype Correlations  
    Termsarasab P, Yang AC, Frucht SJ, Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov, 1/1/2015

Books/Book Chapters

  • ACP Clinical Genomics: Practicle Applications in Adult Patient Care 
    Chapter: Chapter 135: Dystrophinopathies 
    Rana H, Yang A, Mehta LEditors: Murray M, Babyastsky M, Giovanni M.McGraw-HillsEdition 1st,2014

Abstracts/Posters

  • Monitoring of Gaucher Disease Type 1 in Presymptomatic Pediatric Patients
    L Bier, A Yang, K Desai, J Cohen-Pfeffer, RJ Desnick, M Balwani, Lysosomal Disease Network WORLD Symposium, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2014
  • Using Regions of Homozygosity and the Genomic Oligoarray and SNP Array Evaluation Tool to Aid in the Diagnosis of Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy in a Patient with Reg...
    A Yang, K Wierenga, Z Jiang, R Burnside, E.W. Jabs, American College of Medical Genetics Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 1/1/2012
  • Cobalamin C Disease with Fulminant Hyperammonemic Presentation in the Neonatal Period.
    N.S. Abul-Husn, A.C. Yang, C Yu, H Chen, G.A. Diaz, J.D. Weisfeld-Adams, American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, Boston, MA, 1/1/2012

Lectures

  • What’s Your Specialty? 
    St. John’s University, Queens, NY - 1/1/2013
  • 22 Year-old with Multiple Nerve Tumors 
    New York, NY - 1/1/2013
  • Newborn Screening and Inborn Errors of Metabolism 
    Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY - 1/11/2014

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