Secretary for Mental Health this morning. Live coverage on cspan2. Senator murray is not here today so she sent senator murphy to go fill in for her. Ive asked senator cassidy to chair the hearing. I will come back at 1145. Especially with their leadership in enacting the legislation last year. After our witness testifies, senators will have five minutes for questions. Sean luster is a typical busy, nashville young adult with a fulltime job who also attend college. In june 2014, 2 days before his 25th birthday, he experienced his first schizophrenic experience. Since then he has been admitted to the hospital five times, spending ten weeks receiving psychiatric treatment. He recently wrote me saying this may seem slightly depressing, but my story does not end there. The doctors and staff i encountered at the clinic taught me too live productively in society. I have been free of the hospital for a year. During that time ive taken medication, return to work and even paid off a car. I am e
Operator
Good afternoon, and welcome to MannKind Corporation first-quarter 2021 earnings call. As a reminder this call is being recorded on May 12th, 2021, and will be available for playback on the MannKind Corporation website shortly after the conclusion of this call until May 26, 2021. This call will contain forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from these stated expectations.
For further information on the company s risk factors please see their 10-Q report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning, the earnings release and the slides prepared for this presentation. Joining us today from Mannkind are Chief Executive Officer Michael Castagna, and Chief Financial Officer Steven Binder. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Castagna.