CONMED Corporation and Exactech to Partner in North America on Comprehensive Medical Education Programs to Treat the Continuum of Shoulder and Knee Repair (press release)
Exactech, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAC), a developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products for total joint replacement, and CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD), a global leader in the development and manufacturing of surgical instruments and devices, announced today their plans to co-develop a series of medical education programs designed to advance the standard of care for patients across the continuum of shoulder and knee repair.
The companies plan to leverage their combined expertise to offer orthopaedic surgeons comprehensive medical education programs that address advancements in patient care from early arthroscopic intervention to total joint replacement technologies and techniques. The co-developed programs will take place at CONMED Corporation subsidiary, CONMED Linvatec, at their state-of-the-art Center for Orthopaedic Education in Largo, Fla., which opened earlier this year. A quarterly schedule of programs is being developed for introduction in early 2013.
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