The aim of the Education Committee (EC) is to coordinate ESOT’s efforts to advance multidisciplinary education for transplant professionals at all career levels and to contribute to their professional development.
The Basic Science Committee promotes scientific issues and transplantation research within ESOT. An active basic science community and an efficient translation of innovation into the clinic are crucial for the future of transplantation medicine.
The European Transplant Allied Healthcare Professionals (ETAHP) reaches out to allied healthcare professionals throughout Europe in order to ensure the best care possible for all transplant patients, with the aim to optimize patient outcomes.
The Young Professionals in Transplantation (YPT) is the Network for Junior Transplant professionals of ESOT, representing all young transplant clinicians and scientists who are beginning a career in transplantation and organ donation.
The mission of ECTORS is to provide a forum for discussing and stimulating novel developments in the fields of cellular therapies in organ transplantation, organ regeneration and generation of new organs from stem cells and biomaterials.
ECTTA is the forum for experience exchange on treatment of patients with end-stage heart and lung failure. Our aim is to improve outcomes for the patients.
EDTCO aims to support health care professionals to provide clinically effective programmes on organ and tissue donation, procurement and transplantation.
EKITA is the Organ Expert Section of ESOT on kidney transplantation in Europe, providing a forum for kidney transplantation professionals to exchange scientific information and views aimed at providing the best service to European patients .
The European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), previously known as the European Liver Transplant Association (ELTA), is a section of ESOT. Its membership represents the expertise on liver and intestinal transplantation in Europe.
ELPAT is a European platform that brings continuity and progress in European research and dialogue on "Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of organ Transplantation". ELPAT currently consists of over 160 experts from more than 25 European countries.
EPITA is established to provide a forum for those working in the field of pancreas and islet of Langerhans transplantation or any other alternative form of beta cell replacement in Europe, to exchange scientific information and views related primarily to providing the best service for patients in Europe requiring pancreas or islet transplantation.
VCA has opened a new era in the field of transplantation, reconstructive and restorative surgery. This Section brings together 10 representatives of major European teams at the forefront in this field.
Dr. 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 İstanbul. He had further training as 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. This was followed by a clinical fellowship at Asan Medical Center, Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery Department at Seoul, South Korea.
He was appointed as Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of Liver Transplantation at Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation in 2012. He was appointed as Professor of Surgery in 2018 in the same school.
In 2022, He moved to Istanbul to Bahcesehir University School of Medicine as the Chief of Department of Surgery and Abdominal Transplantation which he currently continues to work.
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 and heterotopic partial liver transplantation for babies and small infant. He and his team developed Livervision software, a dedicated software for 3D liver imaging and surgical planning for complex liver surgery and LDLT.
He works at multiple international societies; as a member of executive council and the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Liver Surgeons, as a steering committee member of the Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery Special interest group at International Society of Liver Transplantation and executive council member of international Living Donor Liver Transplantation Group and a board member of ELITA; European Liver Intestine Transplant Association.
