Dr Connolly is current Dean of the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and is also a member of the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Association of British Neurologists, the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the American Academy of Neurology and an external collaborator of the NBRG.

Dr Seán Connolly received his MB, MCh, BAO degrees in 1984 from the National University of Ireland. In 1988 he received his MRCPI degree from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland , and in 1994 he was awarded an MD degree by the National University of Ireland. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1998. From 1989 to 1996 he worked and trained in Clinical Neurophysiology at The Middlesex Hospital, London, Newcastle General Hospital, UK and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA . Since July 1996 he has been Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Dr Janet Rennie is a Consultant Neonatologist with a special interest in brain injury in babies and an external collaborator of the NBRG. 

Background:
Dr Rennie was a Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Cambridge from 1985-to 1987, and held a Consultant appointment in Cambridge until 1995. Whilst in Cambridge she was also Director of Medical Studies at Girton College. Dr Rennie held an appointment as Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at King’s College Hospital in London from 1995 to 2004 and now holds a similar post at University College London Hospitals where she is the Clinical Lead in Neonatology. She has contributed chapters to the major British textbook of paediatrics and many other books, and co-authored  “Manual of Neonatal Intensive Care 4th Edition” with Dr NRC Roberton. She is the editor of  “Rennie & Roberton’s Textbook of Neonatology 5th Edition", and also the Editor of the 4th edition. Dr Rennie was also the sole author of “Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound”, and co-author of the updated version entitled “Neonatal Cerebral Investigation” (highly commended in the BMA Book Prize 2009 and by Doody’s Book Reviews). Dr Rennie was elected a Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2008.

Dr Rennie is involved in research into neonatal brain injury, and has published many papers on this topic. The NBRG currently holds a Wellcome technology transfer grant, for work on automated seizure detection, and Dr Rennies is also a co-investigator in a European study (FP-7) of antiepileptic drug treatment of neonatal seizures: NEMO. She was on the board of the Archives of Disease in Childhood for ten years and served on the national executive committee of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine for a similar length of time. She currently serves on the board of the Mac Keith Press and was the Chair of the RCPCH Specialist Advisory Committee, responsible for setting standards regarding training in neonatal medicine in the UK, from 2002 to 2005, having been on the committee since 1997. She has advised CESDI, and RCOG-led advisory groups on “Safer Childbirth” and “Standards for Maternity Care” and was Chair of the NICE guideline development group on neonatal jaundice 2007-10.