Professor Derek Connolly
Professor Derek Connolly
Birmingham City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
About Professor Derek Connolly
Professor Derek Connolly is a Consultant Cardiologist and the Director of Research and Development at Birmingham City Hospital and the Clinical lead for cardiac care for the local integrated Care System. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Aston Medical School and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
He trained in Edinburgh, Cambridge, London 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 BHF-funded PhD in molecular cardiology is from the University of Cambridge. He 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 is a council member of the British Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. He was on the design and naming team of the forthcoming super hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, which will open in 2023.