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Alice Salamone is a pioneering surgeon-scientist whose work is reshaping the landscape of minimally invasive pancreatic surgery, with a particular focus on robotic pancreatoduodenectomy—one of the most technically demanding procedures in abdominal surgery. Her major contributions center on developing and validating tools to make this complex operation safer, more reproducible, and more widely adoptable. She led the creation of the PD-ROBOSCORE, a novel difficulty scoring system that predicts severe postoperative outcomes, enabling surgeons to stratify cases and implement robotic techniques in a stepwise, risk-adjusted manner. Salamone also provided the first detailed technical roadmap for robotic pancreatoduodenectomy with superior mesenteric/portal vein resection and reconstruction—a critical advancement for patients with locally advanced tumors who have responded to neoadjuvant therapy. Her work on the “cold” triangle approach further refines oncologic resection by en bloc removal of retroperitoneal lympho-neural tissue. With her most-cited papers accumulating over 80 citations in just two years, Salamone’s research is already guiding the safe expansion of robotic pancreatic surgery worldwide, establishing her as a leading voice in the next generation of hepatopancreatobiliary innovation.