Dr. Balabanska graduated from Medical University, Sofia in 1987, she earned her speciality in internal diseases in 1996, and added her speciality in gastroenterology and nutrition in 1999. She worked in the gastroenterology clinic of the Miltary Medical Academy and the 5th General Hospital where she gained fourteen years of experience under the mentorship of the leader academic Professor Grigor Mechkov. She specialized in gastroenterology and endoscopic echography in the “National Cancer Disease Research and Treatment Center” in Milan, Italy, and has specializations from Holland, England, Greece and Russia. For over ten years, she worked on international programs for the treatment of viral hepatitis.  She performs hepatic biopsies, precision punctures assited by echography, and paracentisis. She is fluent in English, Russian, and Italian. She is a member of the International and Bulgarian Association of Surgeons and Gastroentrologists, the European Association of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the Bulgarian  Gastroentrology Society. She has numerous national and international publications, she writes a medical gastroenterology column for the Medical magazine “Medical Magazine”, she joined our team in March 2007. Dr. Balabanska is researcher of the year in Tokuda Hospital Sofia for 2015.

Gastroenterology