Heron Therapeutics, Inc.

Thank you for standing by. My name is Alex and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Heron Therapeutics Q1 2024 conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, Press star 1 again. I would now like to turn the call over to Melissa Jarrell, Executive Director, Legal. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone.

Thank you for joining us on the Heron Therapeutics Conference call this morning to discuss the company's financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. With me today from Heron are Craig Collard, Chief Executive Officer, Ira Duarte, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Bill Ford, Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer. For those of you participating via conference call, this is made available via webcast and can also be accessed via the Investor Relations page or website following the conclusion of today's call. Before we begin, let me quickly remind you that during the course of this conference 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 statement. 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 Heron's public periodic filings with the FCC. Except as required by law, Heron assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or actual outcomes and does not intend to do so. And with that, I would now like to turn the call over to Craig Collard, Chief Executive Officer of Heron.