Massimo Balsano MD

Dr. Massimo Balsano, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon. He was born in Padova, Italy, and graduated from the 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 University Trust of Padova, where he focused on spinal pathologies. Dr. Balsano’s areas of interest were spinal deformities and traumatology. 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 adult and child deformities, failed-back syndrome, and herniated disc and traumatology.

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 Virginia Beach, Virginia; the Spine Centre of Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Germany; and the Hospital Pitie’Salpetriere of Paris, France.

Since 2000, Dr. Balsano has been Chief 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 as the 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.

Since 2018 Dr. Balsano is the Director of the Regional Spinal Department, the main hub of spine surgery in North East Italy, University and Hospital Trust in Verona.