UTICA, N.Y., Jan 25, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq: CNMD) announced today that the Company will present at the Brean Murray & Co. Annual Institutional Investor Conference on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 1:15 PM Eastern Time. The event will be held at The New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY.

Mr. Robert D. Shallish, Jr., Chief Financial Officer and Vice President-Finance 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 9, 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

Robert Shallish, Chief Financial Officer of CONMED Corporation, +1-315-624-3206;
Investors - Julie Huang or Lanie Marcus, Media - Sean Leous, all of Financial
Dynamics, +1-212-850-5600, for CONMED Corporation

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