Jan-Paul Roovers

Prof Jan-Paul WR Roovers graduated at the university of Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1996. In that year he worked 8 months as house-officer in Ghana, and after his return he started his PhD. He evaluated the effects of hysterectomy and prolapse surgery on pelvic floor function, which resulted in a PhD thesis in 2001. He performed his residency in Tilburg and the UMC Utrecht and did a fellowship in uro-gynaecology in 2006 at the University hospital of Leuven, Belgium. In 2008 he became a board-certified urogynaecologist.
Since 2006, Prof Roovers has been responsible for uro-gynaecology in the AMC Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2008 he is medical director of 2 clinics (“Bergman Clinics|Women health”) which collaborate with both of the university hospitals in Amsterdam (AMC and VUmc). Since 2011 he is one of the Principal Investigators of the AMC Amsterdam, since 2012 he is chair of the department of gynaecology in the AMC Amsterdam, and since 2014 he is a professor in gynaecology. Evaluation of innovative surgical procedures is one of his research topics and he has performed surgery in more than 25 countries worldwide.
Prof Roovers has (co-)authored more than 120 original research papers in gynaecology, especially uro-gynaecology, he has written several book chapters, and supervised over 20 PhD fellows. He is editor of the IUGA journal and associate editor of Gynaecological and Obstetrical Investigation. He is chair of the dutch uro-gynaecology complication registry, vice-president of the dutch society of pelvic floor, and chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Uro-gynaecology Association.