Baxter International Inc.

good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to baxter international second quarter 2022 earnings conference call your line will remain in a listen only mode until the question and answer segment of today's call at this time if you have a question you will need to press the one the star one on your telephone touch tone keypad if anyone should require assistance during the conference please press star then zero on your touchstone phone. As a reminder, this call is being recorded by Baxter and is copyrighted material. It cannot be recorded or rebroadcast without Baxter's permission. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Ms. Claire Trackman, Vice President, Investor Relations at Baxter International.

Ms. Trackman, you may begin. your conference. Good morning and welcome to our second quarter 2022 earnings conference call.

Joining me today are Joelle Mehta, Baxter's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Jay Saccaro, Baxter's Chief Financial Officer. On the call this morning, we will be discussing Baxter's second quarter 2022 financial results and our full year financial outlook for 2022. With that, let me start our prepared remarks by reminding everyone that this presentation, including comments regarding our financial outlook for the third quarter and full year 2022, and our 2022 to 2025 long-range plans, the recent acquisition of Hillrom, new product development, the potential impact of proposed pricing actions, business development, and regulatory matters, contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and of course, Our actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Please refer to today's press release and our SEC filings for more detail concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. In addition, on today's call, non-GAAP financial measures will be used to help investors understand factors ongoing business performance. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures being discussed today to the comparable gap financial measures is included in our earnings release issued this morning and available on our website. On the call this morning, we will be discussing operational sales growth, which adjusts for the impact of foreign exchange and the acquisition of Hill Run. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Joe. Joe?