Meet the Team

The PFFSA Co-Founders

The Pelvic Floor Foundation of South Africa was founded by Professor Stephen Jeffery and Professor Jan-Paul Roovers to promote education and research in the field of female health in order to improve the quality of life of women worldwide.

Together the PFFSA Team  Researches, Innovates and Educates.

Professor Stephen Jeffery

Professor Stephen Jeffery is a Royal College (London) accredited subspecialist Urogynecologist. A large portion of his time is spent doing clinical work which includes heading the Department of Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Reconstruction at the University of Cape Town. He is one of the only accredited Urogynecologist in South Africa.

As president of the South African Urogynaecology Association, Dr Jeffery was instrumental in the formalising the accreditation of the Urogynaecology as a subspeciality in South Africa. Prof. Jeffery specialises in surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. He has a broad research interests in the field of Urogynaecology including novel techniques in prolapse surgery, fistula and minimally invasive techniques of incontinence.

Professor Jan-Paul Roovers

Professor Jan-Paul Roovers completed his training as a Gynaecologist at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and his fellowship in Urogynaecology at UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven. He has worked as an Urogynecologist at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam Medical Centre, since 2006, was head of the gynaecology department from 2012 - 2018 and became professor in gynaecology in 2014.

Since 2016 he is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. Prof Roovers founded the pelvic floor centre of Amsterdam in 2008, which is now the largest pelvic floor centre in his country and part of a chain of private hospitals called Bergman Clinics. In this chain of 60 hospitals with a focus on orthopaedic and aesthetic surgery, Roovers is the medical director of research and innovation. Roovers leads a research group with 20 researchers, has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, chaired the EUGA meeting in 2016 and IUGA meeting in 2020 and is an associate editor of Neuro-urology and Urodynamics.

We are an internationally recognized research group working to improve the understanding and treatment of pelvic floor disorders and road back to pelvic health.

 NPO Number: 168 916

Contact us:

Telephone:
+27 64 141 0644

Email:
info@pffsa.org

Physical address:
Foreshore, Cape Town 8000
South Africa

We Are Moving.....


The Pelvic Floor Foundation of South Africa has been rebranded as POWER Foundation (Promotion of Wellness, Education and Research).

This website will be decommisioned and we welcome you to visit our new website where we have expanded our scope to women's health as a whole. We have new and exciting developments coming soon and our Women's Wellness Webinars continue on our new site.

www.powerfoundation.health

 

 

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