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About
Jennifer Agard, MD learned reproductive medicine from the person who helped invent it. Her REI fellowship took her to the prestigious Jones Institute at Eastern Virginia Medical Center, where the legendary Howard Jones MD — a founding father of IVF — was her mentor. She now carries that training biography into Pacific Fertility Center’s Marin County clinic in Greenbrae, the specialist who saves North Bay patients the drive over the bridge.
Her route back was a full circle. A Bay Area native, she studied at San Francisco State University while running stem cell differentiation research at UCSF, then went to UCLA for medical school, where she discovered women’s health and surgery. She completed OB/GYN residency at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, fellowship at the Jones Institute, and returned to the Bay in 2012. Her practice now spans egg freezing, IVF, comprehensive chromosome screening, third-party reproduction, and laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery. Regional peer voting has named her a Castle Connolly Top Doctor since 2020, and Heart of Marin, Marin Top Doctors, and Sonoma Top Doctors honoree.
Clinical Expertise
- Fertility preservation and egg freezing: she has made patient education about family-formation timing a stated specialty focus, before and during stimulation cycles
- IVF with genetic testing: comprehensive chromosome screening (PGT-A) to select euploid embryos, mirroring the center’s frozen-transfer-first outcome profile
- Reproductive surgery: laparoscopic and hysteroscopic correction of structural factors — fibroids, adhesions, endometriosis — before or during IVF planning
- Third-party reproduction: donor egg and gestational carrier cycles coordinated with the center’s egg bank and medical director’s program
- Marin-campus continuity: consultation, monitoring, retrieval planning, and transfer handled at Greenbrae rather than split between two cities
Why Choose Dr. Agard
Jones Institute lineage, Howard Jones as mentor. Her fellowship training came from the program that defined American IVF, with the field’s founding generation doing the teaching — a training biography few fertility physicians in the Bay Area can match.
The North Bay option that isn’t a satellite consolation. She holds the Marin campus’s specialist clinic across the full service range — IVF, freezing, surgery — so Greenbrae patients are not routed to San Francisco for anything except lab logistics.
Six straight years of Castle Connolly (2020-2025) plus the Heart of Marin and Marin/Sonoma Top Doctors lists: recognition from the peer and local medical communities where she actually practices.
Professional Affiliations
Board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Jones Institute fellow, Eastern Virginia Medical Center. Physician at Pacific Fertility Center, Marin County campus (Greenbrae, CA). Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2020-2025.
Suitable For
- Marin, Sonoma, and North Bay residents who want stimulation monitoring minutes from home, not across the Golden Gate Bridge
- Women freezing eggs for medical or life-timing reasons who want a preservation-focused counselor
- IVF patients considering PGT-A on their embryos
- Patients needing fertility-related laparoscopic or hysteroscopic surgery