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Psychiatrist creates "Web" of training tools

A North Carolina psychiatrist offers online information and services to health care professionals.

By Tyler Chin, AMNews staff. Feb. 21, 2005.


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Name: T. Bradley Tanner, MD

Specialty: Psychiatry

Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.

Business: Clinical Tools Inc. Dr. Tanner's company offers online-based education, training and tools for electronic grant submissions to physicians, researchers and other health care professionals.

Annual revenue: $1 million in contracts and grants from government agencies.

Why he started the business: "During my residency in psychiatry, I realized that the then-new Internet would have the ability to provide unprecedented opportunities to reach patients and physicians with information," Dr. Tanner said.

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