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Francesca Rogers

Nurse Practitioner Francesca Rogers is an Adjunct Lecturer at ECU’s Exercise Medicine Research Institute with expertise in the field of prostate cancer and urology.

Background

Francesca has extensive nursing experience in Urology, Gynaecology, General Surgery and Colorectal and has been a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) affiliated Prostate Cancer Specialist Nurse for several years. Francesca has post graduate qualifications in prostate care nursing, sexual health, is a Clinical Continence Advisor and completed a Urology and Men’s Health Fellowship at the Australian Prostate Centre in Melbourne.

Francesca completed her Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) and currently cares for general urology patients with a focus in men’s health. She facilitates the long term follow up of patients with urological cancers, provides management of erectile dysfunction, sexual health issues, continence issues and bladder dysfunction. She is passionate about education and empowering patients.

Francesca is a subcommittee member for the Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference. Francesca is also a past President and long-term committee member for the Society of Urological Nurses in WA (SUNWA) and state representative for the Australian and New Zealand Urological Nursing Society (ANZUNS). Francesca is a current member of ACNP, SAS, SUNWA, ANZUNS and EAU.