Weight-loss medicine in South Africa has filled up with brands that will not tell you who is signing the script. Here is our entire team — every degree, every council registration, and what each of them is for. Look them up.
HPCSA-registered South African doctors. They take your history, decide whether medication is right for you at all, and own every dosing decision after that.
Founder & Chief Executive
MBChB (UP)
Patrick took his medical degree at the University of Pretoria and has spent over a decade in practice, across surgical specialties and emergency medicine before moving into geriatrics and gerontology with a focus on health span. He founded Flourish to treat obesity as the chronic, multifactorial disease it is, rather than as a failure of willpower.
Sports & Exercise Medicine Doctor
MBChB (UP, cum laude), Dip Sports & Exercise Medicine (IOC)
Kyle graduated from the University of Pretoria cum laude in 2020 and went on to complete the International Olympic Committee diploma in sports and exercise medicine. He is reading for a master’s degree through Stellenbosch University, and works on keeping people strong and mobile while they lose fat.
Women's Health & Weight Loss Doctor
MBChB (UP)
Amanda is a general practitioner with a background in emergency medicine and family practice, and a particular interest in women’s health and menopause. She works from an integrative, evidence-based position — treating the causes underneath the weight rather than the number on the scale alone.
Registered dietitians who know what eating looks like on a GLP-1 — including the weeks when food stops being interesting and protein gets hard.
Registered Dietitian
BSc (UKZN), BSc Med Hons Dietetics & Nutrition (UCT)
Philippa holds a BSc in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Natal and a medical science honours degree in nutrition and dietetics from UCT. She brings twenty years of dietetic practice, and works in intuitive eating and behaviour change as much as in macros.
Registered Dietitian
BSc (Wits), BSc Med Hons Dietetics (UCT)
Ashleigh has spent close to two decades in private dietetic practice. She builds plans around whole foods, targeted supplementation where it is warranted, and the practical reality of what someone will actually eat on a Tuesday night.
One human who knows your story, checks in before you have to ask, and escalates to your doctor the same day when something is not right.
Health Coach & Registered Dietitian
BSc Dietetics (UKZN), PGDip Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition (UKZN)
Nomfundo has more than nine years in weight management and nutrition, and has supported thousands of clients through their programmes — specialising in GLP-1 weight management. She has worked internationally and contributed to national nutrition initiatives.
Health Coach & Registered Dietitian
BSc Dietetics (NWU), Certified Personal Trainer (Trifocus)
Jonica pairs clinical nutrition training with exercise science, and is a certified personal trainer as well as a registered dietitian. She has guided people through weight management, chronic disease support and lifestyle change, and designs movement that fits around the plan rather than fighting it.
The people who hold us to a clinical and scientific standard — those who founded Flourish on it, and those who backed it because of it.
Co-founder & Medical Advisor
MBBCh (Wits), PhD
Paul co-founded Flourish. He is a Johannesburg physician who heads an interdisciplinary healthcare centre, and holds a PhD in transpersonal psychology alongside his medical degree. He is a research associate at GIBS, University of Pretoria, and shapes the psychological side of long-term weight care here.
Advisor & Investor
MBChB (UCT), DCH (SA), DTM&H (Wits), FC(Path)CLIN (SA), MMed Clinical Pathology (Wits)
Jessica is a clinical pathologist with extensive clinical, academic and commercial experience in South Africa and internationally. She has built and headed large clinical, research, genetic and forensic laboratories, and was a partner and board member of Ampath, one of South Africa’s largest private pathology groups.
Advisor & Investor · Co-founder, Evia Health
BEngSc (BME), BSc Eng (Elec), MSc (Eng), PhD, Pr Eng
Adam is a biomedical engineer whose PhD is in the biomedical applications of artificial intelligence. He was a researcher and lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and later its Head of Innovation, and is a SingularityU expert and global keynote speaker. He co-founded Evia Health, the registered pharmacy that dispenses Flourish prescriptions, and advises Flourish on the clinical AI that underpins FIA.
Flourish doctors prescribe; Evia Health dispenses. They are a separate business with their own South African Pharmacy Council registration (0979023), and that separation is deliberate.
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Chief Executive, Evia Health
Evia Health (Pty) Ltd
Steven leads Evia Health, the registered pharmacy responsible for dispensing and delivering every prescription written on Flourish.
Chief Medical Officer, Evia Health
Formerly Discovery Health
Craig spent two decades shaping preventive healthcare for millions of South Africans at Discovery Health, and now leads Evia’s clinical strategy.
Registered Pharmacist, Evia Health
Practice no. P37745
Veronique is the registered pharmacist who ensures every treatment plan is safely prepared, rigorously checked and securely dispatched to your door.
A 30-minute video consult, within days. If the doctor says GLP-1 treatment isn’t right for you, your R249 first programme month is refunded.