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Elisa Meacci is a prominent thoracic surgeon whose research centers on robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS), thymic tumors, and myasthenia gravis, with particular expertise in minimally invasive surgical techniques and training optimization. Her contributions have significantly shaped the evolving landscape of robotic thymectomy, a procedure she has championed through rigorous clinical investigation and technical innovation. Meacci's most influential work — contributing to the Delphi process of the Thoracic Robotic Curriculum Development Committee (2017, 50 citations) — addressed the critical challenge of standardizing robotic surgical training to minimize learning curve-associated risks, a foundational contribution to surgical education globally. Her subsequent research has systematically validated robotic thymectomy across increasingly complex clinical scenarios, including large thymomas and severe myasthenia gravis, through landmark multicenter national studies that provided long-awaited long-term oncological and neurological outcome data. Her detailed single-surgeon learning curve analysis (2022) offers invaluable benchmarks for surgeons adopting the technique. More recently, Meacci has extended her focus to lung cancer and thymic cysts, consolidating her reputation as a versatile innovator in thoracic oncology. Collectively, her work — accumulating nearly 100 citations — has meaningfully advanced evidence-based practice in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, making her an essential reference for surgeons and researchers in the field.