Sascha Karunaratne
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About
Sascha Karunaratne is a leading health services researcher whose work sits at the intersection of surgical innovation, health economics, and sustainability. Her primary research areas include robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) across multiple specialties—orthopaedics, urology, gynaecology, and colorectal surgery—with a particular focus on cost-effectiveness, patient-reported outcomes, and environmental impact. Her most influential work, a systematic review and meta-analysis on robotic hip and knee arthroplasty (89 citations), demonstrated measurable improvements in patient-reported outcomes, establishing a key evidence base for RAS adoption. Karunaratne has been instrumental in translating this evidence into public health policy, notably through her comparative cost analysis of robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty in the Australian public system (26 citations). She has also pioneered the study of RAS’s environmental footprint, with a waste audit analysis (9 citations) that quantifies the ecological costs of multi-specialty robotic surgery. Her recent prospective work on patient decision regret following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (2 citations) and her multicenter study on imaging for seminal vesicle invasion (2 citations) highlight her commitment to patient-centered outcomes. Karunaratne’s research uniquely bridges clinical efficacy, economic viability, and environmental sustainability, making her a distinctive voice in the future of surgical care.
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