Alexandra Channing, MD
Locations and Appointments
ColumbiaDoctors - Midtown
GET AN EXPERT SECOND OPINION
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Affinity Health Plan
- Amerigroup of New Jersey
- CIGNA
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- Quality Health Management
- RiverSpring
- UnitedHealthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Alexandra Channing, MD
I care for children and adolescents who are born with or acquire heart disease, as well as pregnant mothers carrying fetuses who are suspected to have heart disease. My focus is diagnosing heart conditions by interpreting images of the heart, either by ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), prenatally and through adolescence.
I was drawn to pediatric cardiology early in my training, when I had the opportunity to care for children with heart disease. I quickly grew passionate about caring for these children and learning to manage the complex varieties of heart conditions. I feel a strong responsibility for keeping kids safe and as healthy as they can be.
What I like most about my job is working closely with my patients and their families. It is especially rewarding, as a fetal cardiologist, to meet the parents of my patients before they are born, and to build a strong collaboration that continues after birth and through childhood. In addition, I love to teach students and pediatricians-in-training so that they can gain the knowledge and experience they need to care for their patients. I also take part in research that focuses on assessing outcomes in children with different types of heart disease so that we can improve the quality and safety of care that our team provides. I am fortunate to be part of such an exceptional group at Columbia where our team of heart specialists, in partnership with our colleagues in other pediatric specialties, works tirelessly and compassionately to deliver the best care to our patients.
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatrics
Expertise
Aortic Stenosis
Atrial Septal Defect
Cardiac Arrhythmia
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Chest Pain In Children and Adolescents
Coarctation of the Aorta
Heart Murmur
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Kawasaki Disease
Marfan Syndrome
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
Pediatric ECG
Pediatric Echocardiography
Pediatric Syncope
Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation
Rheumatic Fever
Supraventricular Tachycardia SVT
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transesophageal Echocardiography
Transposition of the Great Arteries
Education
Fellowship: Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Internship: University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Residency: University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Languages
- English
Titles & Positions
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Education
- Internship: University of California San Francisco Medical Center
- Fellowship: Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
- Residency: University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Awards & Honors
- 2006, Student Summer Research Fellowship, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Honorary award for research in public health and cultural competency issues.
- 2009, The Nagendran Scholarship for International Medical Studies, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
- 2011, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of California, San Francisco. 2011 Resident Research Funding Award.
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatrics
Languages Spoken
- English