Dr. Zarko Vuckovic is a general surgeon and a specialist in groin pain. Along with his surgical work, due to his strong fondness for football, he collaborated during his career with a number of important sports organizations, participating as a team doctor in various international and national competitions. He was a member of the Medical Organizing Committee of EYOF 2007 Belgrade, Serbia as well as a medical advisor to Bora Milutinović during the preparations for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup for the Iraqi national team. Since 2010, Dr. Vuckovic has been a member of the Aspetar Clinic’s Groin Pain Center, where he is fully committed to the diagnosis and treatment of groin pain caused by sports activities, as indicated by the success in treating more than 400 patients. He is currently working as the Director of the Groin Pain Center at Aspetar Clinic, Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Vuckovic graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, and has completed his specialization in general surgery at the KBC Bežanijska kosa. Since 2003, he has been working as an expert consultant at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in the field of general surgery.

Lecture by dr Žarko Vučković

Dr. Zarko Vuckovic, Director of the Center for Groin Pain in the Aspetar Clinic (Doha, Qatar), general surgeon and groin pain specialist, gave a lecture on “Surgical treatment of groin pain in athletes” within the Belgrade Sports Medicine E Forum, 14 May 2020.

Dr. Zarko Vuckovic is a world-renowned expert in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of groin pain who, along with his surgical work, due to his strong passion for football, cooperated with a number of important sports organizations, participating as a team doctor in various international and national competitions.

The lecture was finised with a very active online discussion in which Serbian experts in the field of sports medicine and general surgery shared their own experiences and through numerous questions compared the protocols of examination of athletes with groin pain that they apply, with protocols recommended by European and world experts.