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Marie Cappelle is a leading surgical outcomes researcher whose work is reshaping the landscape of minimally invasive pancreatic surgery. Her primary research areas center on the implementation, safety, and optimization of robotic and laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy—among the most complex abdominal procedures. Cappelle’s major contribution is the development of the **PD-ROBOSCORE**, a validated difficulty scoring system published in 2023 (34 citations) that enables surgeons to preoperatively predict case complexity, thereby guiding the safe, stepwise adoption of robotic techniques. She also led a landmark pan-European multicenter propensity-matched study (2024, 20 citations) comparing robot-assisted versus laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy, providing critical, generalizable evidence on outcomes across international centers. Most recently, her nationwide analysis of the first 1,000 robotic pancreatoduodenectomies in the Netherlands (2025) mapped outcomes across four phases of the learning curve, demonstrating that patient results improve significantly after the initial adoption period. With her work accumulating over 60 citations in just two years, Cappelle is defining the evidence base for robotic pancreatic surgery, offering surgeons and institutions a roadmap for safe implementation and continuous quality improvement.