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CONMED Corporation to Announce Fourth Quarter 2009 Financial Results on February 4, 2010

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^{Published in Health and Fitness on Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 4:10 GMT by Market Wire}  

UTICA, NY--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: [ CNMD ]) announced today that it expects to report fourth quarter 2009 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, February 4, 2010, and will also hold a conference call live over the Internet at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time that same day. This webcast can be accessed from CONMED's web site at [ www.conmed.com ]. Replays of the call will be made available through February 12, 2010.

The Company anticipates that forward-looking information and additional material details related to fourth quarter 2009 earnings and the Company's expectations on a prospective basis may be discussed during the call. Such forward-looking information may involve risks and uncertainties such as those described in the Company's SEC filings.

CONMED is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and monitoring. The Company's products serve the clinical areas of sports medicine-arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, cardiac monitoring disposables, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. Surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and gastroenterology use our medical devices. Headquartered in Utica, New York, the Company's 3,200 employees distribute its products worldwide from several manufacturing locations.