Dr. Connolly received his B.A. in Environmental Studies with a focus on Conservation Biology in May, 1997 from Middlebury College, Vermont, and his M.D. from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine with Distinction in Research in May, 2004. He completed an NIH-funded one-year Medical Student Research fellowship at the University of California, Irvine, from 2002-2003. He completed his internship at the University of California, San Francisco in 2005 and completed his general surgery residency at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in 2009. He then completed a two-year ACGME accredited Fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Connolly is a member of the Society of Vascular Surgery and the Society of Clinical Vascular Surgery. He has authored numerous journal publications in his field of specialty, and has given many presentations at professional society meetings.