rewrite this title and make it good for SEOBausch + Lomb Corporation (BLCO) Discusses Project Halo and Myopia Control Developments in Vision Care Transcript

Joanne WuenschCitigroup Inc., Research Division

Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us for this installation or installment of our Heads, Shoulders, knees and Toes series. This call is somewhat different, and I like that. This is part of the Bausch + Lomb research and development, teach-in series, particularly targeting 2 areas of contact lenses. One is the project Halo. The other one is myopia control, both of which were unveiled at their analyst meeting last fall.

I think this really provides an opportunity to dig in a little bit more on those products from an R&D perspective and take a look at their development and ultimately, the commercial impact. There is a large group of people on this call. Not only do we have CEO and CFO, Brent and Sam, we have a Head of Research and Development, Dr. Hashad; we have Vice President of Vision Care and R&D, Bryan Reed. We have Executive Director of Vision Care Clinical Development, Bill Reindel, James DiBella and last but certainly not least, physician, Mark Schaeffer, who is an optometrist in ocular diseases and contact lenses.

If I [indiscernible] anybody’s, from Joanne Wuensch, I say, I’m sorry, at this stage. But I’m going to kick it off to you. There is a PowerPoint presentation we can go through. I have some questions. Should you have some questions, please e-mail them into me. You know how to find me at joanne.wuensch@citi.com, and we’re just going to start to rock and roll.