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Sonam Kapadia is a surgical education researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotic surgery and graduate medical training, focusing on how emerging surgical technologies should be integrated into residency curricula. Kapadia has established herself as a leading voice in assessing the readiness and attitudes of surgical training programs toward robotic surgery adoption, conducting influential national surveys of both general surgery and fellowship program directors to gauge institutional priorities and training gaps. Her most cited work, a 2022 national survey examining whether robotic surgery training should become a general surgery residency requirement, has garnered 28 citations and sparked meaningful dialogue about standardizing technology-based training across programs. Building on this, her 2021 investigation into robotic surgery's current status within colorectal residency programs — cited 14 times — provides a valuable snapshot of specialty-specific implementation. Her earlier 2020 survey of fellowship directors further laid the groundwork for this research trajectory. Collectively, Kapadia's contributions offer surgical educators and policymakers evidence-based perspectives on curriculum modernization, making her work essential reading for anyone interested in the future of surgical training and robotic medicine.