Dr Derek Connolly is an experienced consultant interventional cardiologist, with over 20 years of practice as a consultant at The Priory Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Dr Connolly is a an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham City Hospital and is also Director of Research and Development at Birmingham City Hospital and Sandwell Hospital, UK. He was appointed to his current post as Consultant Interventional Cardiologist in 2000.

Dr 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 UKs largest cardiac CT programmes. He was on the design and naming team of the forthcoming super hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, UK, which will open 2022.

Dr Connolly’s primary interest and research is in the detection and treatment of coronary artery disease.