UTICA, N.Y., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq: CNMD) announced today that the Company will present at The 17th Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 2:00 PM Eastern time. The event will be held in New York City at The Pierre Hotel.

Mr. Joseph J. Corasanti, President and Chief Operating Officer of CONMED, will discuss the Company's business. The live webcast of CONMED's presentation will be available at http://www.conmed.com in the Investor Relations - Events Calendar section of the website and will be available for replay through February 3, 2005.

CONMED Profile

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.

SOURCE  CONMED Corporation
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    /CONTACT: Robert Shallish, CONMED Corporation, Chief Financial Officer,
+1-315-624-3206; Investors: Julie Huang or Lanie Marcus, media, Sean Leous,
+1-212-850-5600, all of Financial Dynamics/
    /Web site:  http://www.conmed.com /
    (CNMD)

CO:  CONMED Corporation; Piper Jaffray
ST:  New York
IN:  HEA MTC
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