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.