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Curriculum Vitae

Zoran Tocilj, MD

Physician, Physicist and Sports Medicine Practitioner

Dr Zoran Tocilj is a physician and physicist with extensive experience in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of complex musculoskeletal injuries. His work combines clinical medicine, applied physiology and a mechanism-based approach to tissue healing, with experience across football, athletics, basketball, combat sports, tennis, handball, judo and weightlifting.

Professional Approach

Dr Tocilj’s clinical approach is based on precise diagnostics, individually adapted treatment and progressive rehabilitation structured according to the injured tissue, the stage of healing and the athlete’s competitive requirements.

Current Appointments

DirectorPolyclinic DIOMED LAREM, Split, Croatia

Clinical practiceSports and regenerative medicine in Split, Croatia, and Belgrade, Serbia

Consulting physicianElite and professional athletes and sporting organisations

National Teams and Sporting Federations

United Arab Emirates National Football TeamConsulting physician, 2025

Croatian Weightlifting FederationOfficial physician, 2018–2025

Croatian Football FederationMember of the Medical Commission, September–December 2021

World Athletics Championships, DohaOfficial physician, Croatian athletics delegation, 2019

European Athletics Championships, AmsterdamOfficial physician, Croatian athletics delegation, 2016

Olympic and International Sporting Experience

Athletics coach, Croatian Olympic delegation, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Member of the Croatian Athletics Federation coaching and support staff at multiple international competitions
Croatian athletics delegation member at European, Balkan and European Team Championships
Medical and performance support for national-team athletes competing at Olympic, World and European level

Areas of Clinical Work

Acute and chronic muscle injuries Myotendinous and intramuscular tendon injuries Tendon ruptures and avulsion injuries Tendinopathies and enthesopathies Ligament injuries Bone stress injuries and stress fractures Chronic bone marrow oedema Cartilage injuries and osteoarthritis Osteitis pubis and complex groin pain Postoperative and non-operative rehabilitation Return-to-training and return-to-competition planning Complex or previously unsuccessful cases

All treatment involving competitive athletes is planned in accordance with applicable WADA anti-doping regulations. Athletes receive documentation concerning medications and supplements used during treatment when required.

Selected Experience in Elite Sport

This selection reflects professional work with individual athletes. Club names indicate teams represented by those athletes and do not necessarily imply a formal appointment with the club.

Football

Clubs represented by selected athletes

Atlético de Madrid, Aston Villa, Club Brugge, Leicester City, AC Milan, SPAL, Atalanta, Gent, Maccabi, US Sassuolo Calcio, RSC Anderlecht, FC Winterthur, Norwich City, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Partizan, Red Star Belgrade, Sarajevo and Željezničar Sarajevo.

Selected Croatian national-team players

Danijel Subašić, Lovre Kalinić, Ivica Ivušić, Dejan Lovren, Šime Vrsaljko, Borna Barišić, Ivan Strinić, Filip Bradarić, Bruno Petković, Josip Juranović and Lovro Majer.

Selected international and regional national-team players

Stefan Savić, Filip Đuričić, Žarko Tomašević, Stefan Mitrović, Saša Balić, Asmir Kajević, Milan Rodić, Milan Gajić, Aleksandar Prijović, Ibrahim Šehić, Ervin Zukanović, Mateo Sušić, Amar Rahmanović and Elvis Sarić.

Basketball

Yogev Ohayon, Devin Smith, Dragan Bender, Quincy Miller, Wade Baldwin IV, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Dino Rađa and Trey Thompkins.

This includes experience with players representing Maccabi Tel Aviv and other leading European and international basketball organisations.

Boxing and Kickboxing

Antonio Plazibat, Luka Plantić, Marko Tomasović, Milorad Žižić, Marija Bodač, Toni Čatipović, Muhamet Deskaj, Roko Dozdor, Marija Malenica, Luka Tomić and Nives Radić.

Mixed Martial Arts

Miloš “The Cobra” Janičić — UFC lightweight division.

Tennis

Ivan Dodig, Franko Škugor, Donna Vekić, Petra Martić, Marinko Matošević, Chris O’Connell, Max Purcell, Jordan Thompson, Karen Khachanov, Sebastian Korda, Dušan Lajović, Laslo Đere, Damir Džumhur, Mate Pavić, Alex de Minaur, Karolína Muchová, Roman Safiullin, Borna Gojo and Duje Ajduković.

Handball

Igor Karačić — Croatian national team
Nenad Bilbija — Slovenian national team and GWD Minden
Milan Jovanović — Fenix Toulouse Handball
Ivano Pavlović

Athletics

Blanka Vlašić, Ana Šimić, Andrea Ivančević and Stipe Žunić.

This experience includes work with Olympic athletes, World and European Championship competitors, international medallists and European finalists.

Judo

Tomislav Marijanović, Zlatko Kumrić, Barbara Matić, Brigita Matić and Karla Prodan.

Research

Dr Tocilj’s scientific work spans physics, radiation science, sports medicine, exercise physiology and clinical medicine. His research interests include sports physiology, pulmonary function, exercise testing and lactate dynamics in high-intensity sport.

Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications

Physics and Radiation Science

1. Pašić S, Gamulin O, Tocilj Z. A simple experimental checking of Heisenberg’s uncertainty relations. Fizika A. 2006;15(2):73–84.

2. Pašić S, Uroić M, Tocilj Z, Majer M, Gamulin O, Bokulić T, Ilakovac K. Experimental determination of absolute-scale Compton cross sections using the K X-ray escape and a comparison with three versions of the impulse approximation. Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 2005;73(6):303–310. doi:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2005.04.001.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology

3. Karninčić H, Tocilj Z, Uljević O, Erceg M. Lactate profile during a Greco-Roman wrestling match. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2009;8(CSSI3):17–19. PMID: 24474881.

4. Tocilj Z, Erceg M, Karninčić H. Physiological predictors of lactate dynamics during a wrestling match. Archives of Budo Science of Martial Arts and Extreme Sports. 2015;11:207–212.

Clinical Medicine

5. Rizikalo A, Ćorić S, Matetić A, Vasilj M, Tocilj Z, Božić J. Association of glomerular filtration rate and carotid intima-media thickness in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease patients over a four-year follow-up. Life. 2021;11(3):204. doi:10.3390/life11030204.

Digital Rehabilitation

Dr Tocilj Rehab Medicine is a digital rehabilitation platform designed to provide individually structured exercise protocols before, during and after treatment.

The platform supports continuity between clinical treatment, supervised rehabilitation and the athlete’s independent training programme.