CONMED Corporation Announces Its Fourth Quarter 2004 Earnings Release

    Business Editors

    UTICA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2005--CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq:CNMD) announced today that it expects to broadcast its fourth quarter 2004 conference call live over the Internet on Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The Company also expects that forward-looking information and additional material details related to fourth quarter 2004 earnings and the Company's expectations on a prospective basis may be discussed during the call.

    This broadcast can be accessed from CONMED's web site at www.conmed.com. Replays of the call will be made available through February 17, 2005. The Company plans to report earnings before the market opens on Thursday, February 10, 2005.

    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 2,800 employees distribute its products worldwide from eleven manufacturing locations.

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CONTACT: CONMED Corporation Robert Shallish, 315-624-3206

KEYWORD: NEW YORK INDUSTRY KEYWORD: MEDICAL DEVICES EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: CONMED Corporation

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