Dr. Amy Evans is originally from Rochester, New York where she received her medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She then completed her Pediatric residency at Strong Memorial Hospital through the University of Rochester’s Department of Pediatrics. Thereafter she was in a private group practice for 12 years in suburban Rochester, New York.

In 2002, she relocated to Fresno, California and joined the UCSF-Fresno Department of Pediatrics to teach General Academic Pediatrics and Breastfeeding Medicine in her academic subspecialty clinic. She is the Director for the Center for Breastfeeding Medicine within her department, is the Medical Director for the Mother’s Resource Center at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno and holds the title of Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), has published extensively with the ABM and Breastfeeding Medicine and several smaller articles and letters in other journals and websites.

She currently works at Dizon Pediatrics where she focuses on primary care pediatrics with an emphasis on good breastfeeding management and consults in breastfeeding medicine as well. Her areas of interest are in ankyloglossia, informal milk sharing, breastfeeding and maternal medications, international liaison work and education in breastfeeding medicine, and comprehensive primary care pediatric medicine.

Along with the above work she continues to occasionally lecture locally as well as all over the world. She is married to another physician and has two grown children. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, growing orchids, creating wreaths, cooking, traveling, reading, listening to music, caring for her cats, hiking, and knitting.