Nancy Connolly, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Nancy Connolly is the Founding Executive Director for Health and Wellbeing at the U.S. Chamber of Connection, the nation's civic institution dedicated to building and sustaining the core infrastructure needed to address the loneliness epidemic. In this role, she is mobilizing healthcare leaders to develop a united, systemic response - ensuring cities and towns have the infrastructure required to foster meaningful connection and wellbeing.

Dr. Connolly is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, working as a primary care and addiction specialist serving people experiencing homelessness. She has worked in clinical care in multiple, diverse roles for almost 30 years and has additional experience as medical director at Virginia Mason Medical Center and as a researcher on phase I to III - HIV trials at the University of Pittsburgh.

She completed medical school at Ross University School of Medicine and earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Michael Reese Hospital and at the University of Pittsburgh, Shadyside Hospital. She completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She was an RWJF fellow form 2023-2024.