Dr. Ferran Pellisé, head of the Spine Unit of the Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology Service of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and head of the Spine Research Unit of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), has more than 25 years of complete dedication to the surgical treatment of spinal pathologies and, in particular, to scoliosis and other deformities.The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), founded in 1966 in Winsconsin (USA), was born with the desire to focus specifically on the study of scoliosis and its surgery, considered to be of maximum complexity. The society, which originally brought together mainly North American specialists, has expanded its scope by integrating doctors from other parts of the world until about 20 years ago when it reached a global personality. The spirit of this medical society is to ensure the excellence and experience of all its members, so the admission process lasts 3 years, in which a significant volume of interventions is required, the result and possible complications of which must be reported before being able to be admitted. The result of this selective process is that the society brings together the most expert specialists in the world.Dr. Ferran Pellisé has been an active member for 12 years, and in 2018 he was invited to join the Board of Directors as a counselor (Director at Large). Until then, only two other professionals from the State - Dr. Francisco Sánchez Pérez Grueso, from the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid and Dr. Hani H. Mhaidli from the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria - had been part of the council. And it has not been until now, with the appointment as secretary, that a European specialist, and for the first time not North American, occupies this position and is part of the executive committee of this society, whose mission is the optimal care of patients with deformities spinals.In addition to being considered a referent specialist in the surgical treatment of child and adult scoliosis and spinal deformity in Spain and internationally, his initiative as founder of the European Spine Study Group (ESSG) has been key to his election, which Dr. Ferran Pellisé created together with other specialists in 2010, based at the Vall Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR). His vision was to bring together a selective group of European spinal deformity surgeons, also members of the SRS, to develop a comprehensive, prospective, multicenter, European -and international- database on spinal deformities in adults, in order to evaluate the clinical results of patients under conservative or surgical treatment.This group included the European specialists with the greatest surgical talent -on the other hand, mostly located in hospitals in southern Europe-, such as the Acibadem University Maslak Hospital in Istanbul, the Pellegrin University Hospital in Bordeaux, the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, and the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, together with the Schultness Klinik of Zurich. It should also be mentioned that the surgical activity of these five centers together has allowed the creation of a database of the same size as that generated by the 17 most active centers in North America, among which are references from university hospitals as important as the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, Duke University Hospital, University of Kansas Hospital or Hospital for Special Surgery New York, among others. Today the agreements between both groups and the combination of these two databases lead the research and advances in the surgical treatment of adult spinal deformities worldwide.The enormous amount of information gathered from patients before, during and after operations allows the application of artificial intelligence solutions and algorithms to have a much more precise knowledge about surgeries, even before operations. It is important to note that a very large number of these patients, who give their data by express consent, often decide to follow up their participation in the studies for years. All these data allow to know the origin of the possible complications and their prevention, and ultimately, improve the result of highly complex surgeries often performed on frail, elderly people.