Johan Graduated as Optometrist in 1985 with passion for excellence and the ethos of learning is a life-long process, have done to following post graduate advanced studies
CAS: Ocular Disease and Pharmaceutical Application, New England College of Optometry, Boston, USA, 1998
CAS: Contact Lenses and Related Ocular Physiology and Anterior Segment Disease, New England College of Optometry, Boston, USA, 2009
CAS: Ocular Therapeutics and Public Health, KZN University + State University New York College of Optometry, USA, 2016
CAS: Diabetes-Comprehensive Patient Care for the Primary Optometrist, New England College of Optometry, Boston, USA ,2018
Johan was Rotary Club of Hermanus President two years in a row and received in conjunction with Dr Anton van Biljon a Paul Harris Award for running the Indigent Rotary Cataract Project for three years doing over two hundred cataract operations on the needy people of Hermanus.
Johan also served on South African Optometric Association Board as Continued Education Director and on the Health Professions Council Professional Board of Optometry committee.