About Us

EduPro Health is a new, innovative CPD service provider that aims to provide physiotherapists with affordable, relevant and accessible CPD solutions.

Brett Phillips

Chief Executive Officer

Anne-Catryn Oldenburg

Chief Operations Officer

Our Story

By bringing you fresh, contemporary and motivated course presenters, and providing content that is applicable, evidence-based and relevant, we aim to up-skill and develop physiotherapists in South Africa. Clinical professional development is primarily for the improvement of clinical competency.

By providing excellent clinical content, we aim to improve the clinical competency of South African physiotherapists in order to help achieve our overall function as healthcare practitioners, which is a better standard of healthcare for our patients.

Key tenets of our business

Our Presenters

Dr Megan Dutton

Megan completed her B.PhysT (with distinction) at the University of Pretoria in 2004. Her career as a physiotherapist started at the High Performance Centre, Pretoria where she had the privilege of working with numerous elite athletes and national teams (amongst others: SA Netball, SA Rowing, SA Men’s and Women’s Hockey).

During her tenure at the HPC she formed part of the medical team used by Cricket South Africa for their annual National Academy. This later manifested in her appointment as the team physiotherapist for the CSA Women’s (2008-2012) and U19 Men’s (2010-2014) Cricket Teams, respectively; culminating in her attendance at four ODI World Cups (2014: Winners), two T20 World Cups and numerous local and international series’.

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Dr Richard von Bormann

Dr Richard von Bormann is a specialist arthroscopic and reconstructive knee surgeon, who is trained and experienced in all aspects of knee surgery.

He is University of Cape Town Medical School trained with Fellowships in Knee Surgery at the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre, University of Pittsburgh,Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children’s Hospital..

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Ms Donne Descroizilles

Donne is a physiotherapist who has worked in the field of paediatric neurodevelopment therapy for her entire career of 36 years.

She is currently a SANDTA tutor and presents both the Foundation and Introduction to CP course.

She is an advocate for children living with disabilities and their families.

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Ms Hester van Aswegen

Hester van Aswegen is a physiotherapist with a special interest in pelvic floor dysfunction and pelvic health.

She graduated from Pretoria University in 1987 and has been in private practice since 1991.

She is currently working in Johannesburg at various premises (Roodepoort, Douglasdale and Wits Donald Gordon medical centre) where her main patient load is patients with pelvic problems. This includes women and men and all types of pelvic related conditions – urinary and faecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, anorectal dysfunction and constipation, all types of pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction as well as ante and post-natal patients .

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Dr Dale Rae

Dr Rae is a Senior Researcher in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine within the Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Her research focuses on sleep and circadian rhythms (i.e. the body’s 24h clock).

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Prof Brenda Morrow

Brenda Morrow is a Physiotherapist and Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Brenda is an active clinician-scientist with a special interests in interdisciplinary paediatric critical care practice and research; cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; palliative care; and medical ethics. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications; 12 book chapters; and numerous national and international congress presentations.

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Ms Mirda Maclachlan

Mirda is a passionate physiotherapist with more than 30 years’ clinical experience in the management of neurological patients.

She has honed her skills in Neurological Physiotherapy and the
capacity development of undergraduate physiotherapy students in clinical settings for many years working in public, private and academic settings.

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Mrs Helene Simpson

Helene is a physiotherapist with international renown in the assessment and treatment of foot and ankle pathologies. After graduating with a BSc Physiotherapy degree from the University of Free State in 1984, Helene then completed a BSc Med (Hons) in Sports Science at UCT in 1990. From there Helene became the Chief Physiotherapist at the UCT Sports Injuries Centre, subsequently taking over the ownership of the practice from 1997.

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Mr Ken Kabongo

Ken Mark Kabongo, graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT). Ken is also a Neuro-musculoskeletal Clinical Educator in the Physiotherapy Department of the University of Cape Town. After completing his community service year in Johannesburg, Ken decided to further his studies and has completed a Master of Science (MSc) in Sports & Exercise Physiotherapy at UCT.

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Mrs Gakeemah Inglis-Jassiem

Gakeemah Inglis-Jassiem has a special interest in, and clinical expertise in neurological physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Gakeemah completed her BSc Physiotherapy degree (cum laude) at the University of the Western Cape (1996) and her Master’s degree at Stellenbosch University (2006). She is a qualified Basic Bobath Course Instructor in the assessment and management of adults with lesions of the central nervous system.

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Dr Alison Lupton-Smith

Alison qualified as a physiotherapist from the University of Cape Town in 2007 and obtained her PhD at UCT in 2017.

She is currently a full-time lecturer in the Division of Physiotherapy at Stellenbosch University.

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