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Pietro Panzarasa is a leading scholar in network science and its application to healthcare innovation, particularly in surgery and global health policy. His research focuses on understanding how collaborative networks drive the diffusion of surgical innovations, using quantitative methods to measure value and impact beyond traditional metrics. Panzarasa’s most-cited work, “Network analysis of surgical innovation: Measuring value and the virality of diffusion in robotic surgery” (2017, 37 citations), introduces a groundbreaking framework that tracks the implementation and spread of new surgical techniques, moving beyond publication and patent counts to capture real-world adoption. He further advances this in “Surgical Innovation in the Era of Global Surgery” (2019, 21 citations), demonstrating how network-based collaboration can foster innovation in low-resource settings. Panzarasa also applies network analysis to policy, as seen in “Evaluating the implications of Brexit for research collaboration and policy” (2019, 6 citations), where he simulates the potential impact of Brexit on UK healthcare research. His work has been instrumental in shaping how surgical innovation is measured and promoted, earning recognition for bridging complex network theory with practical healthcare challenges.