Alimera Sciences, Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Good morning and welcome to the Alamara Sciences first quarter 2022 financial results and corporate update conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Participants of this call are advised that the audio of this conference call is being broadcast live over the internet and is also being recorded for playback purposes. A webcast replay of the call will be available approximately one hour after the end of the call through August the 6th, 2022. I would now like to turn the conference over to Scott Gordon of CoreIR, the company's investor relations firm. Please go ahead, Scott.

Good morning, and thank you for participating in today's conference call. Joining me from Alamara's leadership team are Rick Eisworth, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Phil Jones, Chief Financial Officer.

During this call, management will be making forward-looking statements, including statements that address Alamara's expectations for future performance or operational results. Forward-looking statements involve risks and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those statements. For more information about these risks, please refer to the risk factors described in Alamara's most recently filed periodic reports of Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, the Form 8-K filed with the SEC today, and Alamara's press release that accompanies this call, particularly the cautionary statements in it. Today's conference call includes adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure. For the definition of this non-GAAP financial measure and the reconciliation to net loss, its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, please see the reconciliation table located in Alamara's earnings press release. The content of this call contains time-sensitive information that is accurate only as of today, May 9, 2022. Except as required by law, Alamara disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any information to reflect events or circumstances that occur after this call. With that, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Rick Eisner. Rick, please go ahead.