---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-000987"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNMD"
cik: "0000816956"
company_name: "CONMED Corp"
filed_at: "2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:23:52.428725+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CONMED director Martha Aronson resigns to become Merit Medical President & CEO

## Summary
- Martha Aronson resigned from CONMED board effective July 7, 2025 to become President and CEO of Merit Medical Systems.
- No disagreement between Aronson and CONMED; resignation for external opportunity.
- Aronson served on CONMED board since 2016 and previously served as Chair.
- Chair LaVerne Council thanked Aronson for her strategic contributions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-000987
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNMD
- cik: 0000816956
- company_name: CONMED Corp
- filed_at: 2025-07-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816956/000117494725000987/0001174947-25-000987-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/816956/000117494725000987/ea0248186-8k_conmed.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-000987.txt

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