Alice McKnight Garner
Alice McKnight Garner, MD
Chief of Newborn Services
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
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Caring for the Newest New Yorkers
In the early years of her pediatric career, Dr. Alice McKnight Garner focused on neonatology research, publishing in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as the effects of E. coli on cerebral blood vessels. She shifted to clinical neonatology and joined NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens in 2014.
Dr. Garner has been recognized for her clinical expertise, compassion and leadership in strengthening the multidisciplinary care model in the hospital’s newborn services unit. As an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine, she is also known for her deep commitment to teaching and mentoring OBGYN residents and medical students.
The daughter of a physician in Washington, D.C., Dr. Garner remembers going on house calls with her father. It inspired her to continue family tradition and instilled the sense of dedication for caring for the tiniest and most vulnerable patients that her peers and patients’ families would come to appreciate in the decades to come.
“She has an innate ability to communicate with mothers and fathers in a way that puts them at ease even in the most difficult circumstances,” says Queens Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dr. Dave Holson. Dr. Garner passes on the praise to her colleagues. What she’s most proud of, she says, is the dedicated and cohesive team she’s assembled in the NICU.