Prof. Bortolo Giuliano Maino is a professor affiliated with the University of Insubria, where he has held a visiting professorship in orthodontics alongside a similar appointment at the University of Ferrara, and a Past President of both the Italian Society of Orthodontics (SIDO) and the Angle Society of Europe. He also served as President of the Italian Academy of Orthodontics (AIDOr) in 2011 and maintains a private orthodontic practice in Vicenza, Italy.

His specialization is orthodontics, including interdisciplinary orthodontic-periodontal treatment planning and skeletal anchorage techniques.

He holds degrees in medicine and dentistry from the University of Padua and pursued postgraduate clinical training in orthodontics at Boston University, and he is a certified member of the European Board of Orthodontics. He is an active member of the Italian Society of Periodontology and an international member of the American Association of Orthodontists, and he has sat on the advisory committee of the World Implant Orthodontic Association, including as President of its 3rd World Implant Orthodontic Conference.

He is co-developer of the Spider Screw skeletal anchorage system, first described in the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics in 2003, and is author or co-author of three books and more than 100 scientific papers in orthodontics, including research recognized with an award for Best Clinical Research published in 2009 in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

At Dental Leaders Academy, he teaches orthodontic principles within a broader interdisciplinary treatment framework.