>> i barbara bierer. and may e remind everyone to press the button when you speak.and also to turn off your rious electronic reminders. i'm barbara bierer, i'm ofessor at medicine at harvard medil school and senior vice president for the restroom at brigman institute. >> good morning, my name is trish gamms. i'm from the schoolf public health and also theohnson cancer center, and'm no medical oncologist by training. >> good morning, i'm susannah. i have to admit i too am an attorney. until very recently i was at the genetic and public policy center at john hopkins at director of law and policy with a focus on genetic information, discrimination. i will be the policy director for generations ahead in organizing their policies. >> i'm tim aitman, i'm professor of clinical and molecular genetics in the clinical science center. byraing i'm a clinical lipiddologist. and my genetics of college diseases. most recently i've been a specifkist for the uk parliament and genomic medine. so i've had an interest in this area for a little while. >> i'm dick merrill. i'm a retired

barbara bierer and i will moderate the discussion which is to say way out of the way.cording to an agenda which has been distributed to everyone in the audience and around the table, then a bit of the interaction among the planning group and speakers with prompt opening up of the floorh to everyone here who has taken the trouble to attend and i am sure is interested in the subject matter. our co-sponsors and collaborators in this includes our colleagues in the institute of medicine. everyone knows that the national academy is a complex of the national academy of sciences, the national academy of engineering, and the attitude of the madison -- at and the institute of medicine. the national research council came into existence during the presidency of woodrow wilson. the board, life sciences within the national research council joins us as well in the planning and execution of our program. we want to welcome all members of the planning committee, panelists, and our audience and we will encourage analy;qm j analysts -- panelists to cover their subjects. you will mostly s