Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Call January 15, 2025 12:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Gary Guthart – Chief Executive Officer
Jamie Samath – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Robbie Marcus – JPMorgan
Robbie Marcus
Good morning, everyone. Happy to kick off day three of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in the med-tech track. Really excited to introduce our next speaker, Gary Guthart, CEO of Intuitive Surgical. Gary will do a presentation followed by some Q&A. Gary?
Gary Guthart
Thanks, Robbie, and delighted to be here today and to represent the good work of the team at Intuitive.
I’ll start with our forward-looking statements. We will make some forward-looking comments here. I encourage all of you to look at our SEC filings on the Investor page of our Intuitive website.
I want to start by stepping back and just sharing with you some examples of what motivate us. These are just three examples of many, and I don’t want you to take any specific meaning about the three that I chose.
But, we view ourselves as solutions provider in healthcare. And just to give you some statistics directionally, lung cancer, largest cancer killer in the United States. The time to definitive detection and assessment of a lung tumor is about a year later than you could have found it if you were looking. So, if you went out looking, you should find these things a year before you do in the most deadly of the cancers we have, I think that’s nuts. I think that’s crazy.
Turn to gynecologic health. Women will suffer with the symptoms of endometriosis for typically greater than five years before it’s definitively defined and even longer before it’s definitively treated. I find that offensive. I think it’s nuts.