About Me
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Joel attended Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri where he majored in Biological Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Spanish. After graduation, he worked in Program Monitoring and Evaluation for a non-profit organization focusing on child nutritional interventions, global women's empowerment programming, and disaster/humanitarian responses. He returned to his home state of Ohio for medical school at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. While there, he helped lead the campus community garden and served as a student organizer for Doctors on the Streets (DOTS) providing medical care to those experiencing homelessness.
During his residency at Cahaba Medical Care-University of Alabama Birmingham, he participated in the Global Health, Point of Care Ultrasound, Women's Health, and Osteopathic Recognition tracks. He helped lead community medicine initiatives in his neighborhood of West End, Birmingham including a refugee resettlement medical program and helping to provide care in a community medical respite center for men experiencing homelessness with a high degree of medical need. During his training, he received recognition as an HIV Specialist through the American Academy of HIV Medicine and served as Chief Resident during his last year of his residency.
Dr. Manzi is passionate about providing full-spectrum family medicine care to his patients and his community and looks forward to the opportunity to welcome new patients into his practice. While not at work, you may find him frequenting the public library, various coffee shops around Salt Lake City, and honing his photography skills in the wide variety of landscapes Utah has to offer.
