International Continence Society

John PFA Heesakkers; MBA, MD, PhD

E-mail : john.heesakkers@mumc.nl

John Heesakkers studied Medicine at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. In 1987 he received his MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management. He started his training in Urology in 1993 at the University Hospital Maastricht. In 1997 he successfully defended his thesis titled: ‘Dynamic Urinary Graciloplasty’ at the University of Maastricht. From 2000 to 2020 he was a full time staff urologist at the Department of Urology of the Radboud UMC and consultant at the Rehabilitation Clinic St Maarten in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He headed the Unit of Functional Urology and Neurourology in the Radboudumc.

Since 2020 he is appointed as Full Professor at Maastricht University and as Head of the Department of Urology of the Maastricht UMC, the Netherlands. He chaired the Society of Functional and Reconstructive Urology, a body of the Dutch Association of Urology from 2007 until 2022. John Heesakkers is an active member of the EAU, ICS and IUGA. From 2000 till 2007 he was chairing the ICS subcommittee of Workshops and Approved Courses of the Education Committee. In that period he was also member of the ICS Member Clinical Trials Committee. He was the treasurer of the Local Organising Committee of ICS 2007 in Rotterdam. From 2019 to 2022 he was the Treasurer of the ICS and from 2022 to 2025 he was the General Secretary of the ICS. Since 2021 he is the Secretary General of the Association of Academic European Urologists. He is a faculty member of the European School of Urology and was a member of the Scientific Congres Office of the EAU from 2018 until 2024. He is reviewer of several major urologic scientific journals. He is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers, book-chapters and books on urological topics.