Ernesto Canalis, MD

Professor of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut
Director, Department of Research
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Hartford, Connecticut

Ernesto Canalis, MD is professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, and the director of the Department of Research at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn.

Dr. Canalis completed his undergraduate education at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and received his medical education from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed a one-year internship at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. After finishing his residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, and at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Dr. Canalis received a fellowship in endocrinology from Tufts–New England Medical Center in Boston.

He has published more than 200 articles and has served as editor of Bone, and of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He also is a member of several editorial boards including Endocrinology, Calcified Tissue International, The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, and The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Canalis has served as an officer and is a member of many professional societies including the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Endocrine Society, the International Bone and Mineral Society, and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) of which he is a former president .

His research interests include skeletal growth factors, insulin-like growth factors, hormonal action in bone, mechanisms of glucocorticoid action in bone, and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.