Susan Karanja is a Kenyan neurosurgeon.[1] Upon her graduation in 2015, Karanja became the second female neurosurgeon in Kenya.[2][3]
Karanja was born in Nairobi and raised in Kikuyu, Kenya. She attended Consolata Primary School before continuing her education at Precious Blood High Riruta.
Influenced by the HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns of the early 1990s,[4] she studied medicine at the University of Nairobi, where she earned her medical degree.[5] After completing her internship, Karanja shifted her focus from internal medicine, which heavily involved HIV/AIDS, to the field of surgery. [4] She spent five years in Durban, South Africa while completing her masters in neurosurgery at KwaZulu-Natal University.[5]
Karanja currently serves as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya.
She is a member of neurosurgical and medical societies in Kenya and abroad. She is the current Treasurer of the Kenya Association of Women Surgeons (KAWS).[3][6]
She also teaches as an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi.[3]