Massimo Balsano, MD is an orthopedic spinal surgeon. 
He was born in Padova, Italy and graduated from University of Padova in 1983, the second oldest Italian University and a leader in the field of Italian medicine. 
Dr. Balsano continued to complete his residency at the Orthopedic School of Padova, where he focused on spinal pathologies. 
After becoming an assistant physician in the Scoliosis Section of the University of Padova’s Orthopedic Clinic in 1989, he began performing surgery, specializing in different spinal pathologies, which included adults and children deformities, failed-back syndrome, and herniated disc and spine injuries.
Dr. Balsano completed another residency at the Minnesota Spine Foundation of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1994. He also has spent time at various other institutions within the United States and Europe, including the Spine Institute for Special Surgery of Louisville, Kentucky; the Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists of Virgina Beach, Virginia; the Spine Centre of Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Germany; and the Hospital Pitie’Salpetriere of Paris, France. 
Since 2000, Dr. Balsano has been appointed as Director of the Orthopedic Department of the Hospital of Thiene (Vicenza), Italy. In 2003, he was also appointed Chief of another orthopedic hospital in Schio, Vicenza, Italy, which, in February 2005 started its Regional Spinal Surgery Department, becoming the first Italian hospital in the north-east to have a spinal center. 
He has also been appointed Professor of Spinal Pathology at the University of Verona. 
Actually he’s if the Director of the Regional Spinal Department of the University and Hospital of Verona, the most important center for complex spine cases of the Veneto, Northeast of Italy.
He is actually the President of Italian Spine Society (SICV-GIS) 2025-2027 and Past President of ISASS (International Society for Advancement in Spinal Surgery (2022-2023).
He is the clinical advisor of the University Master in Spine Surgery at the Humanitas University of Milan, Italy.
Dr. Balsano has presented many publications at important international and national spinal pathology meetings and is a peer reviewer of many spinal journals, such as European Spine Journal, Spine Deformity Journal, Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, Journal, and Journal of Orthopedics and Traumatology. 
In 2010, Dr. Balsano was chosen as the Spine Center and Fellowship officer of AOSpine Europe Board. In his time as a physician, Dr. Balsano has performed an estimated 12000 spinal surgical operations, including deformities, degenerative conditions, cervical pathologies, traumatology, and cervical and lumbar herniated discs. His main interests lie in spinal deformities, degenerative conditions of the spine and minimal invasive spinal surgery.