Ranks on BusinessWeek’s Inner City Top 100 List

Congratulations to our Portland team at Academic Network! We are honored to be named one of the fastest growing inner city companies in the nation for the second consecutive year! Academic Network placed 49th on 11th Annual Top Inner City 100 list sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). The ICIC was established to recognize the fastest growing companies in America that are based in the “inner city” and provide new business growth potential to their communities. Innovative practices and sustained growth are the predominant traits of the 2009 Inner City 100 award winners. Through an annual national competition, ICIC ranks the 100 fastest-growing businesses in inner city settings. The 2009 award ceremony was held May 20^th in Boston.

Academic Network’s staff of healthcare professionals include physicians, nurses and dieticians. We believe our growth is based on our ability to quickly staff our contact centers with healthcare professionals, our enhanced adverse events monitoring and the use of social media in patient recruitment. We continue to grow our consumer affairs and patient recruitment business, while providing adverse event reporting during product recalls for the protection of the consumer.

Portland-based healthcare communications company credits growth to increased role in adverse event monitoring, telecommunications, and enhanced social media services to engage customers & patients online

Portland, OR (March, 2009) - DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural internet site, has named Academic Network, a Stericycle, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRCL) company and leading healthcare contact center and consulting firm, as one of the “top 10 small businesses in Oregon” (Div100).

“Entrepreneurs are a growing force in the U.S. economy, and a force to be reckoned with,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. This is a whole business segment that can carry its own, that provides jobs, products and services, and generates wealth for their communities. These are the new leaders in American business.”

“We have seen consistent growth over the last several years and we are delighted to have been recognized for our growth and ability to meet the changing needs of our clients. We believe that our health staff, ability to swiftly respond and staff our contact and call centers, our enhanced adverse events monitoring and use social media have enabled us to continue to grow our consumer affairs and patient recruitment business and support our clients outsourcing needs,” says the company’s co-founder, Kathleen A. McCarron. “Our knowledge and experience with adverse events and the use of social media integrated with traditional communication channels will continue to be a focus of our growth in 2009.”

As a newly acquired company of Stericycle, Inc., Academic Network will bring its adverse event reporting experience and social media experience to support the recall and retrieval offerings to Stericycle client’s.

Academic Network will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “9th Annual Multicultural Business Conference”, taking place April 29 - May 1, 2009 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World, Florida.