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- Professor Emeritus, McMaster University
- Senior Scientist, Population Health Research Institute
- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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McMaster University
DisclosuresDr. Stuart Connolly reports serving as an advisor or consultant for and receiving grants for clinical research from Sanofi-Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim and Portola Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Stuart Connolly is a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada and a cardiac electrophysiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Connolly holds a master's degree from Fordham University in New York and an MD from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. He received his specialist training in cardiology at the University of Toronto and at Stanford University. Dr. Connolly became a faculty member at McMaster University in 1983 and was awarded a full professorship in 1994. As well as being an active clinical cardiologist, Dr. Connolly has been the director of the division of cardiology since 2005. He is also appointed as the inaugural Salim Yusuf Chair in Cardiology at McMaster University.
Dr. Connolly has published more than 160 scientific articles in the field and is currently a member of the editorial boards for a number of prominent cardiology journals, including Heart, the American Heart Journal and the Journal of Pacing and Electrophysiology. Dr. Connolly's main research interests are focused on the evaluation of treatments for heart rhythm disorders. His academic career has been largely devoted to the design and execution of controlled clinical trials in this area.