Glaukos Corporation (GKOS) Presents at 44th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Transcript

K. Gong
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Okay. Thanks, everyone, for joining us today. My name is Allen Gong here on the medical supplies and devices team at JPMorgan. Really glad to be introducing the management team at Glaukos today. We’re going to start off with some prepared remarks from CEO, John Burns, and then we’ll tag in Alex and Joe for some Q&A afterwards.

Thomas Burns
Chairman & CEO

Okay. Thanks, Al. Well, good afternoon, and thank you, everyone, for coming today. I do want to formally introduce Joe Gilliam, who’s our President and Chief Operating Officer; Alex Thurman, who’s our Chief Financial Officer; and we have Chris Lewis in the back, who’s our VP of Investor Relations. So I’m happy and delighted to give you an update on the progress we’re making in the business. Begin talking about what we’re about. Innovation is at the core of everything we do in the company. I think that innovation has propelled us into a company that’s been the maker of new markets in ophthalmology. If you think back and look at our history, we pioneered, created, developed and now lead the entire global MIGS marketplace. We are currently creating an entire new marketplace with procedural pharmaceuticals led by our spearhead product, iDose. We’ve entered the rare disease marketplace, and we currently are captivating and moving forward a whole new marketplace on corneal cross-linking, a new procedure to arrest the progression of keratoconus. We’re beginning a nascent approach to using transdermal creams that will incorporate APIs to be able to treat anterior segment disease, something that’s never been done. And then finally, we have the temerity to believe we’re going to build