Fourth Annual DNA Grantees' Workshop

Monday, June 23, 2003

AFTERNOON SESSION

Closing Comments
Lisa Forman
Biography

DR. FORMAN: Well, I know it's the end of the day, so I'm just going to thank everyone for their extraordinary presentations. We have heard a lot of wonderful near-term research and development here. I won't ask for a show of hands, but I heard enough happy murmurs from the audience to know that this is a little step in another direction—a little step into a further direction. I'm very pleased with what I heard, and I hope that you are, too. If you're not, please don't hesitate to tell us, because we'll just keep working at it until we get it the way that you guys need it.

A few housekeeping tasks: Remember my plea to you to be as comfortable as you can be because tomorrow is going to be a very long day. Tomorrow, our research update briefings will continue, and we will also be looking at our tools for tomorrow, as opposed to today's tools for today. We'll begin to look at ongoing projects, and we will also have our practitioner panels and our annual legislative update and DNA assessment project progress report for our luncheon speaker.

So I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. I hope you have a very pleasant evening and get lots of rest. Tomorrow we'll start bright and early at 8:45 a.m.

Thank you.