Amy Kaing, MD

About

Dr. Amy Kaing works out of Irvine, which is the one address in the Reproductive Partners network where the schedule is monitoring only. That distinction is worth understanding before you book, because it splits a treatment cycle into two parts. The part that needs you every day or two — follicle scans, bloodwork and dose adjustments — happens at the Irvine suite shared with Fertility Centers of Orange County. The part that needs an embryology laboratory, meaning egg retrieval, fertilization, biopsy and transfer, happens at one of Reproductive Partners’ three main campuses — Beverly Hills, South Bay or Long Beach — in the practice’s own CAP-accredited laboratory.

Her training is entirely California academic medicine. She earned her MD at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in 2013, completed obstetrics and gynecology residency there in 2017, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society while a student — an invitation extended to a small fraction of each class, based on scholarship and character as judged by faculty and peers, not by a paid nomination process. UCLA also gave her the William J. Dignam Award for Excellence in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She then trained three years in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health and finished in 2020, where she received an Excellence in Teaching Award, which residents and medical students give to the person who actually explains things to them.

Her research sits close to her clinic list. Published articles in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national and international meetings cover fertility preservation, polycystic ovary syndrome and surrogacy — three of the services she offers — and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has given her multiple research honors for that work. Reproductive Partners describes her as recently returned to Southern California after the UCSF years, and she treats in English. Her profile page states her fellowship training but does not list board certification status, which is addressed below rather than assumed.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF cycle management: stimulation protocol design, daily monitoring, trigger timing, and coordination of retrieval and transfer at a Reproductive Partners laboratory campus
• Egg freezing and fertility preservation: elective oocyte cryopreservation and preservation before chemotherapy or surgery, using the practice’s vitrification workflow; this is one of her published research areas
• Polycystic ovary syndrome: ovulation induction and metabolic workup for the anovulation that keeps PCOS patients from conceiving without help, and for the over-response risk PCOS creates during stimulation
• IUI and ovulation induction: timed insemination with partner or donor sperm for unexplained infertility, cervical factors and mild male factor
• Fertility testing and evaluation: hormone panels, ovarian reserve testing, uterine and tubal assessment and semen analysis for the partner, with an explanation of what each result changes; fertility testing is named as one of her areas of focus
• Genetic screening of embryos: deciding whether PGT-A is worth the biopsy in a given cycle, worked through with the practice’s own embryologists, who perform the biopsy and send the sample to an outside genetics laboratory
• Surrogacy and third-party family building: gestational carrier cycles are one of her published research topics, and the practice runs egg donor and gestational carrier programs with California parentage work handled locally

Why Choose Dr. Amy Kaing

Three honors, all awarded inside training programs. Alpha Omega Alpha election, the William J. Dignam Award from UCLA and a UCSF Excellence in Teaching Award all come from the institutions that trained her. None of them can be requested, purchased, or nominated by a clinic’s own marketing staff, which is more than can be said for most “top doctor” listings in fertility care.

Her publications are about the procedures she performs. Fertility preservation, PCOS and surrogacy are not side interests on her list of services; they are the topics she has published on and presented, with ASRM research honors attached. That usually means a patient asking about a low egg yield or a preservation deadline gets an answer grounded in the literature rather than in clinic habit.

Stimulation monitoring can stay in Orange County. For Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Tustin, Anaheim and nearby zip codes, the daily-monitoring week is the hardest part of a cycle to attend to from Beverly Hills or Torrance. Being monitored in Irvine while the lab work happens at a main campus is the practical reason her listing exists.

Long academic pipeline, recent to the region. Residency and fellowship overlapped the years when vitrification, PGT-A and stimulation protocols all changed. She finished that training in 2020 and has practiced in this network since, so her protocols come from a current academic program rather than from a decade of private-practice routine.

Professional Affiliations

Fellowship-trained in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, with UCLA residency and medical school. The Reproductive Partners profile for Dr. Kaing states her training and awards but does not state her board certification status, unlike the pages for several of her colleagues here, which name certification in both obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. If ABOG certification is a deciding factor for you, confirm it directly with her office or through the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s certification lookup before you choose. She is a network physician of Reproductive Partners Medical Group, a SART-member practice whose 2023 clinic report (clinic ID 2254) covers its Beverly Hills, Long Beach and South Bay campuses; the Irvine monitoring site is not part of that registration, so the group’s published cycle volumes and outcomes do not describe a cycle completed in Irvine.

Suitable For

• Orange County residents starting IVF or IUI who want monitoring scans close to home and are willing to travel to a main campus for retrieval and transfer
• Women planning egg freezing, either before cancer treatment or surgery, or to put reproduction on a later timeline
• Patients with PCOS who have not ovulated reliably on their own or who responded badly to a prior stimulation
• Patients who want testing before treatment, including women who arrive asking only for an ovarian reserve number and an honest read of it
• Intended parents working with a gestational carrier, one of the subjects Dr. Kaing has published on