Susan Karanja

Susan Karanja is a Kenyan neurosurgeon. Upon her graduation in 2015, Karanja became the second female neurosurgeon in Kenya.

Life
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, she studied medicine at the University of Nairobi, where she earned her medical degree. After completing her internship, Karanja shifted her focus from internal medicine, which heavily involved HIV/AIDS, to the field of surgery. She spent five years in Durban, South Africa while completing her masters in neurosurgery at KwaZulu-Natal University.

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).

She also teaches as an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi.