MJoTA (Medical Journal of Therapeutics Africa)

Susanna J Dodgson BSc(Hons), PhD is a black media professional witnessing and celebrating African professionals in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. She was born to Irish and English physicians in England, and lived in Ireland and New Zealand before moving to Australia on the day that Nigeria became independent from Britain. From the University of New South Wales, after her first degree in Science (double majors: Physiology and Biochemistry) she was invited into an honors-year program in Biochemistry which qualified her for a government scholarship to work towards a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology.

The week she was ceremonially awarded her PhD, she ran for state parliament in Sydney, turned 27, and flew to Malibu for the start of a lecture tour across America which ended in Philadelphia, at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Dodgson worked as an academic scientist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Physiology for 18 years, during which time she gave birth to her 4 children and published a book, more than 40 research papers and organized national and international conferences in her field of research, carbon dioxide physiology and reached the rank of Associate Professor. In 1995 she left the university to focus on her third husband, a physicist inventor and athlete living in the Black Forest of Germany, her baby daughter and 3 sons, and start a career in publishing and medical communications.