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Chief Medical Officer
Location: Hamden, Stamford, Telemedicine Accepting New Patients? No
Joseph Canarie, MD, FAAP, AAHIVS, is Anchor Health’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), leading and directing all clinical aspects of care.
Dr. Canarie graduated from Arizona State University and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He completed his combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the Yale School of Medicine in 2020. During this time, Dr. Canarie studied under Anchor Health’s cofounder, A.C. Demidont, DO, AAHIVS, where he experienced firsthand how lifesaving competent care is for LGBTQ people. After graduating, Dr. Canarie served as a chief resident in pediatrics.
In 2021, Dr. Canarie was hired as the medical director of Anchor Health’s HIV Prevention & Treatment Program. In this role, he piloted the organization as one of Connecticut’s only clinical trial sites for the HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir. He also oversaw the vaccination of over a thousand people throughout the 2022–2023 mpox public health emergency. Dr. Canarie expanded his role to become Anchor Health’s CMO in 2024.
Outside of Anchor Health, Dr. Canarie is an assistant clinical professor at Yale and enjoys teaching residents the fundamentals of LGBTQ-competent care and HIV medicine. He lives in New Haven with his husband and loves running in East Rock Park, choral concerts, Céline Dion’s French albums, organic gardening, and learning new languages.