At the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials -East Coast meeting in May two new members joined FOCM.  Pete Nieto (in his usual spot in the bar) introduced me to Michele Grabowski and Michele introduced me to Karen Pypniowski.  That was one of the quickest time from first meeting to initiation in FOCM that has been ever recorded since the organization first began recording this data.  Pete and Michele (Karen’s sponsors) are visible in the background of Karen’s ceremony.