Dr. Matuja is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Weill Bugando in Tanzania. Her interests lie in neurology, particularly in improving stroke care and clinical outcomes. She is currently a fellow for both the World Stroke Organization Future Leaders Program (Cohort-2) and the Training Africans to Lead and Execute Neurological Trials Program (Cohort-1), and a former NIH-NINDS Global Health Fogarty Fellow. Her ultimate goal is to conduct collaborative clinical research in Tanzania, sub-Saharan Africa and globally that will improve the health of the population.