Michael Gallizzi, MD, has completed more 500 robotic spine surgeries and more than 500 endoscopic spine surgeries as of April 27, he told Becker’s.
Dr. Gallizzi is one of a few spine surgeons to have both milestones in his career, he said. He reached his 400th robotic spine case in May 2025 and already has more than 600 endoscopic cases under his belt.
In the last year, Dr. Gallizzi has been leading the way in spine innovation and education. He recently wrote three chapters for a new textbook on endoscopic spine surgery, and his sections focused on combining it with robotics, he told Becker’s.
Dr. Gallizzi also predicts faster growth for the technique.
“On the endoscopic side, the growth is going to be a lot faster because the barrier to entry is lower and the procedures are more based on fluoro and use a workflow that most people are typically doing anyway for their tubular cases,” he said. “As we continue to evolve and get more people trained, we’re going to be able to start introducing more and more high end techniques and hopefully going all the way to outpatient endoscopic fusions or ligament you know, just more use of the scope to do all kinds of spine procedures.”
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