Viveve CEO Scott Durbin Named Among Top 50 Healthcare Technology Leaders of 2022 by Healthcare Technology Report

Durbin recognized for second consecutive year for leading development of Viveve's innovative technology for treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women

ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / May 17, 2022 / Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVE), a medical technology company focused on women's intimate health, announced today that Scott Durbin, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, has been named by Healthcare Technology Report as one of The Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2022. Mr. Durbin was also named one of the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs in 2021.

Healthcare Technology Report annually recognizes accomplished senior executives in healthcare technology who have led their firms in advancing innovative healthcare solutions and improvements in patient care. Companies represented on the list are active in diverse areas in healthcare technology including software platforms, medical devices, and therapeutics. While the 2022 awardees come from various backgrounds and have wide-ranging professional histories, they have uniformly led their respective companies to new levels of momentum and success through leadership, business acumen, and commitment to their employees and their customers.

"It is an honor to be named for a second year to Healthcare Technology Report's Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs and to be in the company of the other awardees of this prestigious recognition. I attribute this recognition to Viveve's talented and dedicated employees to whom it is a privilege to serve as chief executive officer," said Durbin. "Our entire organization is united in the belief that our innovative dual-energy technology has the potential to address the significant need for a non-invasive, safe, and durable treatment for stress urinary incontinence or SUI in women. SUI is a condition that negatively affects daily activities and quality of life for millions of women. Our primary focus is to successfully complete our ongoing pivotal U.S. PURSUIT clinical trial, achieve positive results, and obtain a new SUI indication in the U.S.," Mr. Durbin concluded.

About Viveve
Viveve Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on women's intimate health. Viveve is committed to advancing new solutions to improve women's overall well-being and quality of life. The internationally patented Viveve® System incorporates Cryogen-cooled Monopolar Radiofrequency technology to uniformly deliver volumetric heating while gently cooling surface tissue to generate neocollagenesis in a single in-office session. In the United States, the Viveve® System is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis. International regulatory approvals and clearances have been received for vaginal laxity and/or improvement in sexual function indications in 50 countries.

Viveve continues to advance its clinical development program in stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Viveve received FDA approval of its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to conduct the multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled PURSUIT trial for improvement of SUI in women in July 2020 and FDA approval of its requested amendments to the IDE protocol in December 2020. Initiation of the trial was reported in January 2021 and completion of subject enrollment was announced on December 14, 2021. Topline results are anticipated at the end of 2022. If positive, results from the PURSUIT trial may support a new SUI indication in the U.S.

For more information visit Viveve's website at www.viveve.com.

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All statements in this press release that are not based on historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, without limitation, implied and express statements regarding Viveve Medical, Inc.'s plans, timelines, or presumptions of results for the PURSUIT trial. While management has based any forward-looking statements included in this press release on its current expectations, the information on which such expectations were based may change. These forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are outside of our control, which could cause actual results to materially differ from such statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the timing, progress and results of our clinical trials, the fluctuation of global economic conditions, the impact of the novel coronavirus termed COVID-19 on our clinical development and regulatory review and clearances and on the manufacturing, placements and patient utilization of our Viveve Systems, the performance of management and our employees, our ability to obtain financing, our evaluation of strategic alternatives, our ability to obtain approval or clearance for sale of our medical device for all indications sought, competition, general economic conditions and other factors that are detailed in our periodic and current reports available for review at www.sec.gov. Furthermore, we operate in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment where new and unanticipated risks may arise. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We disclaim any intention to, and undertake no obligation to, update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that subsequently occur or of which we hereafter become aware, unless required by law.

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