Advith Sarikonda
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Advith Sarikonda is a rising figure in surgical innovation, whose research focuses on the intersection of robotics, cost-effectiveness, and clinical outcomes in spine and vascular surgery. His work is distinguished by a rigorous application of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to quantify the true economic impact of emerging technologies. In his highly cited 2024 paper, "What is the Marginal Cost of Using Robot Assistance or Navigation for Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion?" (31 citations), Sarikonda provided a granular, data-driven analysis comparing the intraoperative costs of robotic, navigated, and freehand pedicle screw placement, offering crucial insights for hospital resource allocation. He further extended this methodology to vascular surgery in his multicenter, propensity score–matched study on robotic carotid artery stenting (4 citations), where he was among the first to simultaneously evaluate both clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness against the manual approach. By pioneering the use of TDABC in these comparative effectiveness studies, Sarikonda is helping to move the conversation beyond technical feasibility to financial sustainability, providing surgeons and administrators with the evidence needed to make informed decisions about adopting robotic assistance in high-stakes procedures.
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