Heron Therapeutics, Inc.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Heron Therapeutics Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Now I would like to turn the call over to Jeff Cohen, Executive Director, Assistant General Counsel, and Assistant Secretary. Please proceed.

Thank you, Krista, and good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for joining us this afternoon on the Heron Therapeutics conference call to discuss the company's financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023. With me today from Heron are Craig Collard, Chief Executive Officer, Ira Duarte, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Bill Forbes, Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer. For those of you participating via conference call, Slides are made available via webcast and can also be accessed via the investor relations page of our website following the conclusion of today's call. Before we begin, let me quickly remind you that during the course of this call, the company will make forward-looking statements. We caution you that any statement that is not a statement of historical fact is a forward-looking statement. This includes remarks about the company's projections, expectations, plans, beliefs, and future performance, all of which constitute forward-looking statements for the purposes of the safe harbor provision under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on judgment and analysis as of the date of this conference call and are subject to numerous important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. from those described in the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties associated with the forward-looking statements made in this conference call and webcast are described in the Safe Harbor Statement in today's press release and in HARON's public periodic filings with the SEC. Except as required by law, HARON assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or actual outcomes. It does not intend to do so. And with that,