Jacqueline Duarte-Ramos

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Jacqueline Duarte-Ramos is a surgical researcher whose work bridges the gap between operative performance and patient outcomes, with a particular focus on robotic bariatric surgery. Her most cited study, "Correlation between operative time and crowd-sourced skills assessment for robotic bariatric surgery" (2020, 21 citations), represents a pioneering contribution to surgical education and quality improvement. In this work, Duarte-Ramos demonstrated that crowd-sourced evaluation of surgical video—a scalable, low-cost method—can reliably correlate with operative time, offering a novel tool for assessing technical proficiency in minimally invasive procedures. This finding has implications for standardizing training benchmarks and reducing variability in robotic surgery. Beyond this, her research explores how efficiency and precision in the operating room translate to better patient recovery and fewer complications. With over 20 citations on this single paper, her work is gaining traction among surgeons and educators seeking objective, data-driven approaches to skill assessment. Duarte-Ramos’s contributions are particularly valuable for trainees and early-career surgeons, as she provides evidence that even non-expert reviewers can meaningfully evaluate surgical technique, democratizing feedback in a field traditionally reliant on expert observation.