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.