Jozef Babeľa attended elementary school and grammar school in Brezno. After graduating from high school, he continued his studies of general medicine at Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin. After his graduation he joined the Urology Department in Banská Bystrica University Hospital as a doctor. Within postgraduate education he gradually gained two attestations in urology and one in oncology in urology. In his practice he focuses on the treatment of oncological diseases of the uropoietic tract using laparoscopic and especially robotic surgical techniques.