Senior scientist becomes life member of medical society
On the 4th of September, during the 42nd Medical Symposium, two long serving members of the Medical Society were awarded with Life Memberships of the Medical Society.
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Professor Deborah Lehmann receiving her Life Membership award from health minister, mr sasa zibe. |
One of them was Professor Deborah Lehmann; who has a long collaboration with the PNG Institute of Medical Research.
Professor Lehmann came to Papua New Guinea in 1981 as a young medical scientist with the PNG Institute of Medical Research based in Tari, Southern Highlands Province and then later moved to Goroka.
She pioneered the work on pneumonia (Pneumococcal infections) in Papua New Guinea with children in Tari, and her work was highly recognized by both the local and international medical community.
Her research work on pneumonia led to the Haemophilus influenza type b vaccination schedule used today to vaccinate Papua New Guinean children against pneumonia.
She is the principal investigator of the neonatal pneumococcal vaccine trial that is currently been conducted in the Eastern Highlands.
The results of this current study may lead to the Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine being used in the country.
Professor Deborah Lehmann was also made a Fellow of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research.
She is the second person to receive the PNGIMR Fellowship Award after Professor Michael Alpers, who was the former director of PNGIMR, who received the first award in 2005.
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