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Bryan Comstock is a leading researcher in the field of surgical quality assessment, with a particular focus on robotic-assisted urologic oncology. His primary contributions center on the innovative use of crowdsourcing to evaluate surgeon technical skill, a novel approach that democratizes performance review and links it directly to patient outcomes. In his seminal 2015 work, "Wisdom of the crowds: Use of crowdsourcing to assess surgical skill of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy," Comstock demonstrated that non-expert reviewers could reliably assess surgical proficiency, a finding that has garnered 11 citations and reshaped how surgical training is evaluated. He further advanced this methodology in his 2017 study, which established a direct relationship between crowdsourced technical skill assessments and patient outcomes following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Comstock has also applied this framework to robotic partial nephrectomy, developing quantitative metrics for dissection of the renal artery and vein. His work bridges the gap between subjective expert evaluation and scalable, objective performance data, offering a cost-effective tool for improving surgical education and patient safety. Through these achievements, Comstock has positioned himself at the forefront of surgical analytics, influencing how the next generation of surgeons is trained and assessed.