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IMR Madang farewell Couple

By Rhonda Clement

IMR Madang had a farewell party on Friday September 28th to farewell partners, Stuart Dobbie and Enmoore Lin.

Stuart Dobbie and Enmoore Lin serving food during their farewell party

The duo had been working with IMR Madang since 2005.

Stuart Dobbie joined IMR in October 2005 as the Advisory and Training Information Systems, Data Management and Programming Manager.

According to the Data Management Sectional Head, Mr Thomas Adiguma, the highlight of Stuart’s work was in successfully setting up the databases for the Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Infants (IPTi) and later settting up databases for other studies.

Mr Adiguma acknowledged Stuart’s involvement in recruiting, training and mentoring graduate programmers and data managers for the Data Management Unit, which had expanded drastically during the last 2 years.

Mr Adiguma stated that Stuart had set a standard for the Data Management Unit and IMR as a whole and all should follow his dedicated punctilious work.

Enmoore, a former PhD student was working on a mouse model of malaria to identify genes that give resistance to malaria at WEHI.

She then relocated to PNGIMR as a Post Doctorate attached to the ‘Effect of Mixed Plasmodium Infections on Malaria Morbidity (RO3)’ project.

Enmoore said that she had joined IMR when new studies were just emerging and the challenges she faced were limited staff and overload of work.

She however commended the IMR’s staff responsiveness to complete work well and in a timely manner.

“IMR has been carrying out high quality field and laboratory work and I have actively taken part in supervisory roles in the Maprik and Madang sites,” she said.

She acknowledged the friendship, teaching of Tok Pisin, local culture and the entertaining stories from staff of IMR.

Mr John Taime, Site Manager of Madang and Maprik described Enmoore as an energetic scientist who worked harder to see successful completion of tasks resulting in achieving successful results.

He admired the ‘well driven’ research team, which she had supervised.

Mr Taime said that Stuart was quiet however conscious of delegated tasks and working diligently.

Stuart departed Papua New Guinea shores at the beginning of November (2007) and Enmoore will soon join him in Melbourne at the end of the year (2007).