CONMED Announces Resignation of Company's CONMED Linvatec Subsidiary President.Joseph J. Corasanti, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of CONMED, to Assume Interim Leadership Role at Company's Orthopedic Unit UTICA, N.Y. -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq: CNMD) announced today that Mr. Gerald G. Woodard, President of the Company's CONMED Linvatec subsidiary has resigned, effective January 30, 2008, to become CEO of SRI Surgical, a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that provides central processing and supply chain management services to hospitals and surgery centers. CONMED has begun a search for his successor. In the interim, Mr. Joseph J. Corasanti, CEO and President of CONMED, will lead the management team of CONMED Linvatec, based in Largo, Florida. "This is a wonderful opportunity for Gerald and all of us within the CONMED organization wish him success in his future endeavors. Over the past seven years, Gerald has supervised the Company's orthopedic product offering and developed an organization built on customer service. We are confident that this change will have no material affect on our business, and I look forward to working closely with our orthopedic team while we search for the most appropriate candidate," noted Mr. Corasanti. CONMED Profile CONMED is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and patient monitoring. The Company's products serve the clinical areas of sports medicine-arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery electrosurgery /elec·tro·sur·gery/ (-ser´jer-e) surgery performed by electrical methods; the active electrode may be a needle, bulb, or disk.electrosur´gical e·lec·tro·sur·ger·y n. , cardiac monitoring disposables, endosurgery and endoscopic en·do·scope n. An instrument for examining visually the interior of a bodily canal or a hollow organ such as the colon, bladder, or stomach. en technologies. Surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery neurosurgery /neu·ro·sur·gery/ (noor´o-sur?jer-e) surgery of the nervous system. neu·ro·sur·ger·y n. Surgery on any part of the nervous system. , and gastroenterology use the Company's medical devices. Headquartered in Utica, New York
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