Personal Profile
Professor Derek Connolly is an experienced Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, with over 20 years of practice as a Consultant at The Priory Hospital.
Professor Connolly is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham City Hospital and is also Director of Research and Development at Birmingham City Hospital & Sandwell Hospital. He was appointed to his current post as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist in 2000.
Professor Connolly is the Chief or Primary Investigator of multiple large trials in Cardiovascular medicine. He developed one of the UK's first primary angioplasty programmes, and one of the UK's largest cardiac CT programmes.
He was on the design and naming team of the forthcoming super hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital which will open 2022.
Professor Connolly’s primary interest and research is in the detection and treatment of coronary artery disease.Qualifications
He trained in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and San Diego where he was a Carnegie Scholar. He has a first-class degree in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh where he was the Brunton medallist and Keasbey Bursary holder. His Ph.D. is in molecular cardiology from the University of Cambridge.
