CONMED Corporation to Present At the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference...

CONMED Corporation to Present At the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare
Conference 2008 On Friday, September 5, 2008

UTICA, N.Y., Aug. 27, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CONMED Corporation (Nasdaq:CNMD),
a medical technology company specializing in medical devices for surgical and
patient monitoring markets, announced today that the Company will participate in
the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2008 on Friday, September 5,
2008 at 11:30 AM Eastern time. The event will be held in Boston at the Four
Seasons Hotel.

Mr. Joseph J. Corasanti, President and Chief Executive Officer of CONMED, will
discuss the Company's business. The live webcast of CONMED's presentation will
be available at www.conmed.com in the Investor Relations - Events Calendar
section of the website and will be available for replay through September 12,
2008.

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, cardiac monitoring disposables,
endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. Surgeons and physicians in a variety of
specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery,
and gastroenterology use the Company's medical devices. Headquartered in Utica,
New York, the Company's 3,200 employees distribute its products worldwide from
several manufacturing locations.

Forward Looking Information

Certain statements made in the presentation may constitute forward-looking
statements. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and relate to
the Company's performance on a going-forward basis. They will be based upon
management's expectations and involve risks and uncertainties which could cause
actual results, performance or trends, to differ materially from those expressed
in the forward-looking statements therein or in previous disclosures. The
Company believes that all forward-looking statements made by it have a
reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that management's expectations,
beliefs or projections as expressed in the forward-looking statements will
actually occur or prove to be correct. In addition to general industry and
economic conditions, factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but
are not limited to: (i) the failure of any one or more of management's
assumptions to prove to be correct; (ii) the risks relating to forward-looking
statements discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2007 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q; (iii) cyclical
purchasing patterns from customers, end-users and dealers; (iv) timely release
of new products, and acceptance of such new products by the market; (v) the
introduction of new products by competitors and other competitive responses;
(vi) the possibility that any new acquisition (and its integration) or other
transaction may require the Company to reconsider its financial assumptions and
goals/targets; (vii )increasing costs for raw material, transportation, or
litigation; and/or (viii) the Company's ability to devise and execute strategies
to respond to market conditions.

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CONTACT: CONMED Corporation
Robert Shallish, Chief Financial Officer
315-624-3206

Financial Dynamics
Investors:
Brian Ritchie
Theresa Kelleher
212-850-5600