Challenger Appoints Distinguished Directors to Physician Advisory Board

Memphis, Tennessee, 12/06/04 - Challenger Corporation announced today that it has appointed two prominent Residency Directors to the Challenger Physician Advisory Board (PAB). David M. Bauer, MD, and Randall W. King, MD, are the two new appointees to the committee that guides the direction and design of Challenger course and training programs.

Dr. Bauer, Family Practice Residency Director, Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Houston, Texas, holds both a PhD from the University of California at San Diego and an MD from Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey. He has been the Director at Memorial Hermann since 2001 and holds a particular expertise and interest in the uses of technology in medicine and evidence-based medicine.

Dr. King, Emergency Medicine Medical Director, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, holds his MD from the Medical College of Ohio and has been the Director at St. Vincent since 1992. His interests include resident education and documentation, aeromedical medicine, and trauma.

With this selection, Challenger expands its PAB to include eight well-known medical educators from the specialties of emergency medicine, family medicine, anesthesia, and pathology. The company provides training content and a robust management information system to twenty-three prominent university or hospital clinical training programs. These installations cover the specialties of family practice, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology, as well as one program for training physician assistants. The Challenger system permits client educational institutions to train, evaluate, and validate compliance by their students, a major concern of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The ACGME determines which programs fail to meet the criteria for maintaining the authorization to offer residency training.

According to Challenger Corporation's Senior Manager for Business Development, Becca Metzger, "Dr. Bauer and Dr. King have been most supportive with suggestions that have helped us improve the focus and service components of the Challenger Program for Residenciesä. Their willingness to join our other physician advisors gives us great confidence that we can continue to develop and modify our offerings for a world of medical education ever more sensitive to evidence-based information, online deployment and measurement, and the use of sophisticated methods to evaluate the competency and training of future practicing physicians."

Challenger owns the world's largest collection of approved electronic CME media with over 2,400 approved hours of credit. Thousands of practicing physicians, residents, and PAs rely upon Challenger material to prepare for specialty boards exams, re-certification, and continuous competency testing; to fulfill ongoing CME requirements; and to provide reference and patient-care decision support. Challenger products are approved for physician and PA CME credit through joint sponsorships with nine prominent medical schools and three specialty societies.

Media Contact:

Becca A. Metzger
Senior Manager Business Development
Challenger Corporation
5100 Poplar Ave, Suite 310
Memphis, TN 38137
Tel: (901) 762-8431
E-mail: becca.metzger@chall.com