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Dr. Harel Jacoby is a pioneering hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon whose research centers on advancing minimally invasive surgical techniques, particularly robotic-assisted procedures for complex liver, pancreatic, and esophageal cancers. His major contributions include demonstrating the safety and efficacy of robotic major and minor hepatectomy, with his landmark 2021 study on robotic hepatectomy outcomes accumulating 12 citations and establishing benchmarks for this emerging approach. Dr. Jacoby has systematically investigated how patient factors influence surgical outcomes, notably showing through propensity-matched analyses that elevated body mass index and metabolic syndrome do not significantly compromise perioperative results after robotic hepatectomy or distal pancreatectomy—findings that have expanded surgical candidacy for obese patients. He also developed the Tampa difficulty score (2024), a novel classification system for robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy that helps surgeons stratify case complexity. His work on robotic resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma (2022) addresses one of the most challenging malignancies in hepatobiliary surgery, demonstrating that minimally invasive approaches can achieve oncologic outcomes comparable to open surgery. With multiple studies accumulating citations and shaping clinical guidelines, Dr. Jacoby stands at the forefront of defining the role of robotics in complex gastrointestinal oncology.