diff --git a/.isort.cfg b/.isort.cfg
index 829deab..3f01d0d 100644
--- a/.isort.cfg
+++ b/.isort.cfg
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [settings]
-known_third_party = click,dask,distributed,mpi4py,pytest,requests,setuptools,tornado,yaml
+known_third_party = click,dask,distributed,mpi4py,pytest,requests,setuptools,yaml
diff --git a/dask_mpi/__init__.py b/dask_mpi/__init__.py
index ad7560e..ae8408e 100644
--- a/dask_mpi/__init__.py
+++ b/dask_mpi/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from ._version import get_versions
-from .core import initialize, send_close_signal
+from .core import finalize, initialize
 
 __version__ = get_versions()["version"]
 del get_versions
diff --git a/dask_mpi/core.py b/dask_mpi/core.py
index 51bb8bb..a241c88 100644
--- a/dask_mpi/core.py
+++ b/dask_mpi/core.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 import dask
 from distributed import Client, Nanny, Scheduler
 from distributed.utils import import_term
-from tornado import gen
-from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
 
 
 def initialize(
@@ -77,7 +75,6 @@ def initialize(
         comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD
 
     rank = comm.Get_rank()
-    loop = IOLoop.current()
 
     if not worker_options:
         worker_options = {}
@@ -108,7 +105,7 @@ async def run_scheduler():
 
     if rank == 1:
         if exit:
-            atexit.register(send_close_signal)
+            atexit.register(finalize)
         return True
     else:
 
@@ -138,7 +135,7 @@ async def run_worker():
             return False
 
 
-def send_close_signal():
+def finalize():
     """
     The client can call this function to explicitly stop
     the event loop.
@@ -150,11 +147,5 @@ def send_close_signal():
     in initialize.
     """
 
-    async def stop(dask_scheduler):
-        await dask_scheduler.close()
-        await gen.sleep(0.1)
-        local_loop = dask_scheduler.loop
-        local_loop.add_callback(local_loop.stop)
-
     with Client() as c:
-        c.run_on_scheduler(stop, wait=False)
+        c.shutdown()
diff --git a/dask_mpi/tests/core_no_exit.py b/dask_mpi/tests/core_no_exit.py
index fde7baf..9d45889 100644
--- a/dask_mpi/tests/core_no_exit.py
+++ b/dask_mpi/tests/core_no_exit.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from distributed import Client
 from mpi4py.MPI import COMM_WORLD as world
 
-from dask_mpi import initialize, send_close_signal
+from dask_mpi import finalize, initialize
 
 # Split our MPI world into two pieces, one consisting just of
 # the old rank 3 process and the other with everything else
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
         with Client() as c:
             c.submit(lambda x: x + 1, 10).result() == 11
             c.submit(lambda x: x + 1, 20).result() == 21
-        send_close_signal()
+        finalize()
 
 # check that our original comm is intact
 world.Barrier()