UTICA, N.Y., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq: CNMD), a multi-faceted medical technology organization, announced today that the Company will present at The 2005 Health Care Conference of Banc of America Securities LLC on Thursday May 19, 2005 at 11:20 AM Pacific time. The event will be held in Las Vegas at The Four Seasons 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 May 26, 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, Chief Financial Officer of CONMED Corporation,
+1-315-624-3206; or Investors:  Julie Huang, or Lanie Marcus, or Media: Sean
Leous, all of Financial Dynamics, +1-212-850-5600, for CONMED Corporation/
    /Web site:  http://www.conmed.com/
    (CNMD)

CO:  CONMED Corporation
ST:  New York
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