Challenger Corporation, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the creator of the largest library of electronic physician education material in the world. Our library of continuing education products includes:

• Best-selling boards review products in several specialties,
• Over 3,700 hours of approved continuing medical education (CME) materials, and
• Thousands of high-quality images.

Dan Jones, MD, founded Challenger Corporation in 1991 with a broad mission to change the way physicians practice medicine through the use of new computer technologies. Challenger built and sold its first boards review products in Emergency Medicine in 1993. By 1997, Challenger had created review, reference, and education products in Emergency Medicine, as well as cross-specialty products in electrocardiogram interpretation and dermatological presentations. Under the guidance of Dan Jones, Challenger developed product lines in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Women's Health, and Pathology.

Challenger’s revolutionary Med-Challenger programmed learning series has become the best-selling electronic test preparation product in the specialties of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine, and Challenger is developing the same markets in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Obstetrics/Gynecology. Challenger has sold products to over 16,000 individual physician customers since 1991, and developed brand awareness, relationships, and intellectual assets that position us as a market-leader in the industry.

In 2001, Challenger acquired The CE Channel, a California based Internet continuing medical education firm founded by Gary Goldman, DDS, MD. Dr. Goldman and the relationships acquired with his firm have been integral to Challenger’s moving into new media types and distribution methods.

In 2002, Challenger acquired HealthyMe.md, a Memphis-based physician Web-hosting firm. HealthyMe^TM built a sophisticated patient education and practice communications platform with a large audience in Family Medicine and OB/GYN.

The HealthyMe^TM practice platform already has over 300 practices subscribing to education, communications, and marketing services, representing over 1,300 physicians.

Bob Sweeney, semi-retired after successfully founding and participating in the public offering of a physician contracting company, invested in Challenger and joined the Board of Directors in 1997. He joined the company full-time as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and became CEO and President in 2000. Bob holds a doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University and four earned masters degrees, including an MBA and a degree in experimental psychology.

David Beard invested in Challenger and joined the Board of Directors in 1998, and also serves as Chief Financial Officer. He was elected Chairman of the Board in 2003.

Laura Goodman-Bryan joined Challenger as Vice President of Operations in 2002, and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2003. She joined Challenger after ten years in customer service with John Hancock, Inc., and six years as an operations executive in a publishing firm. Laura holds her MBA degree from Boston University.

Challenger has developed processes and digital technologies that lower the traditional costs of creating electronic education, reference, and communication products by an order of magnitude. Because of the existing base of intellectual assets, the huge library of media, physician relationships based on years of common interests, and sophisticated editing and deployment platforms, Challenger’s cost of production is twenty-five percent of the production costs of companies just entering the marketplace.

Firms such as Elsevier, Inc., the world’s largest medical publisher, recognize these unique competencies and Challenger’s large physician market, and have licensed the company to produce a new category of products based on their industry-leading textbooks and world-renowned authors.

Challenger Corporation serves the 400,000 primary and acute care physicians in the United States. Our key service areas are:

• Physician education
• Institutional residency and training program services
• Practice/patient communications
• Patient education

These customers are offered a variety of educational and communication solutions for physician and patient education, practice communications, practice marketing, and pharmaceutical support.

Physician Education in the U.S. is a two billion dollar enterprise. Challenger has created a new category of physician self-assessment, training, and reference products. These products have wide market acceptance, excellent brand recognition, and represent true value per dollar when compared to other categories of computer-based training available to doctors.

Challenger produces the most effective residency education platform on the market. Combining a large library of primary and acute care educational material with a unique reporting platform, Challenger can save hundreds of physician hours annually in routine training, assessment, and student management tasks.

Challenger produces the most effective residency education platform on the market. Combining a large library of primary and acute care educational material with a unique reporting platform, Challenger can save hundreds of physician hours annually in routine training, assessment, and student management tasks.

Challenger produces the most effective residency education platform on the market. Combining a large library of primary and acute care educational material with a unique reporting platform, Challenger can save hundreds of physician hours annually in routine training, assessment, and student management tasks.

A natural offshoot of Challenger’s primary and acute care physician education capabilities is the area of patient education, which is one of the most time-consuming areas in any physician’s practice. Providing constantly updated educational materials via a practice Web site has a dramatic impact on patient compliance with treatment and the cost of care. Challenger provides these services to physicians throughout the United States via HealthyMe^TM. Along with the practice Web site and marketing tools, Challenger provides a set of HIPAA-compliant communication tools for the patient and the practice. Routine tasks such as scheduling appointments, refill requests, sending patient newsletters and email management can be done through the practice site.

Over 200 prestigious physician authors and reviewers, seven medical universities and two major specialty societies jointly sponsor Challenger programs. Internationally recognized programs such as George Washington University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University and their faculties co-sponsor and co-produce seminars and educational programs with Challenger, or use Challenger training and management information systems to instruct and track the performance of physicians in training.