Deniz Balci had his Medical Degree and completed general surgery residency at Department of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation in Ankara University School of Medicine in Turkey. After his clinical fellowship at Florence Nightingale Hospital, Organ Transplantation Unit in Istanbul, he returned back to Ankara University School of Medicine as a junior faculty. He was a clinical research fellow at Department of Transplantation Mayo Clinic Florida, USA and at Recanati Miller Transplant Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York followed by a clinical fellowship at Asan Medical Center, Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery Department at Seoul, South Korea. He was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery and the Chief of Liver Transplantation at Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery and
Organ Transplantation in 2012. His main area of interest is Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery using parenchymal augmentation techniques in particular with ALPPS procedure, Klatskin tumor surgeries and advanced techniques in Living Donor Liver Transplantation such as Rapid Procedure. He and his team developed
Livervision software a 3D liver imaging and surgical planning software. He is currently the Chief of the Liver Transplantation Unit, working as the Professor of Surgery in Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation
and as the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Liver Surgeons.