CONMED Corporation Announces Its First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release Date and Webcast Conference.

UTICA, N.Y. -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq:CNMD) announced today that it expects to broadcast its first quarter 2006 conference call live over the Internet on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The Company also expects that forward-looking information and additional material details related to first quarter 2006 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 May 4, 2006. The Company plans to report earnings before the market opens on Thursday, April 27, 2006.

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 3,100 employees distribute its products worldwide from several manufacturing locations.