GeneEds Life Science E-Learning receives CME Category One Accreditation from the California Medical Association

All of GeneEds catalog and custom-developed scientific e-learning is certified by CMA for Category I accreditation, allowing all physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to complete GeneEd Life Science E-Learning for full CME credits.

San Francisco, CA, October 1, 2002- GeneEd, Inc., the leading provider of advanced e-Learning solutions for the life science industry (including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, and medical instruments and devices), today announced that it has received Continuing Medical Education (CME) Category One accreditation from the California Medical Association. All of GeneEds catalog and custom-developed scientific e-learning is now certified by CMA for Category I accreditation, allowing all physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to receive full CME credits for completion of GeneEd Life Science E-Learning.

The Medical Board of California requires licensed physicians to complete at least 25 hours of approved Category One or other acceptable CME per year, and must complete at least 100 hours of Category One CME every four years. Nurses and other healthcare professionals are also subject to rigorous CME and other continuing education requirements by their individual governing boards.

GeneEd is honored to have had the opportunity to have its scientific e-learning assessed via the California Medical Associations rigorous CME accreditation process, and to receive the CMAs highest level of accreditation", said Dr. Salil Patel, Chief Science Officer for GeneEd. This CME Category One accreditation from the CMA, as well as GeneEds new Therapeutic Area curricula, further exemplifies GeneEds scientific and medical expertise, as well as GeneEds experience and expertise in educating Life Science and Healthcare industry personnel in complex scientific subject areas".

GeneEd delivers catalog and custom Life Science E-Learning courseware in major medical and therapeutic areas (including the Cardiovascular System, the Respiratory System, and the Gastrointestinal System, in biopharmaceutical technology (including genomics, bioinformatics, microarray informatics, and computer-assisted drug design), and in regulatory and compliance subjects (including Good Laboratory Practices, Good Clinical Practices, and Serious Adverse Events reporting). GeneEds Life Science E- Learning has also been developed to allow simple technical integration of the courses into a pharmaceutical organizations Learning Management System (LMS), and all GeneEd E-Learning courses are SCORM 1.2 compliant.

About GeneEd
GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and healthcare e-learning solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, instrument and medical device, and hospital/HMO industries. GeneEds Life Science industry customers include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, the ALZA division of Johnson&Johnson, Celera, Bio-Rad, and IBM Life Sciences, amongst many others(http://www.geneed.com/clients/index.html).

GeneEd utilizes the best life science content, combined with advanced e-learning development technology, to rapidly create basic and advanced curricula in the areas of genomics, therapeutic area training (for clinical research, product development, and sales and marketing teams), computer assisted drug design, drug discovery and development, pharmacogenomics and clinical genomics, bioinformatics and microarray informatics, and therapeutic and diagnostic products. GeneEd, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Visit http://www.GeneEd.com for additional information about GeneEd and its courseware.