Yale School of Medicine

Surgery

Surgery, Yale School of Medicine

Yale Surgery
P.O. Box 208062
New Haven, CT 06520-8062

Tobias Carling, MD, Ph.D

Tobias Carling, MD, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory

Surgical Specialty

Endocrine Surgery/General Surgery

Clinical Interests

  • Surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal gland, and endocrine pancreas.
  • Utilization of minimally invasive surgical techniques, under local and cervical block anesthesia.
  • Laparascopic adrenalectomy, outpatient minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP), and minimally invasive thyroidectomy (MIT).
  • Neck dissection for thyroid cancer.

Research Interests

  • Improved outcomes in minimally invasive endocrine surgery.
  • Molecular pathology and genetics of endocrine tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal (hyperaldosteronism, hypercortisolism, adrenal cancer, pheochromocytoma) and endocrine pancreas.
  • Clinical and molecular genetics of inherited endocrine tumor susceptibility syndromes (familial hyperparathyroidism and multiple endocrine neoplasia variants).
  • Molecular epidemiology of endocrine tumors.
  • Regulation of calcium homeostasis.
  • Nuclear hormone receptors, co-regulators and their role in tumor development.
  • Please visit the Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory

Board Certification: American Board of Surgery

Education:
 MD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 2000
Ph.D, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 1997
Training:
 Post Doctoral Fellowship:Endocrine Surgery Research Unit, Department of Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 1998-2000
Program in Tumor Development. NCI Cancer Center at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA.2000-2001
Internship: Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital 2002-2003
Residency: Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital 2003-2006
Chief Residency: Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital 2006-2007
Clinical Fellowship: Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital 2007-2008
Prior Academic Positions:
 Instructor: Yale-New Haven Hospital. 2007-2008
Associate Professor (Docent), Experimental Surgery: Department of Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (Life time appointment). 2001-present

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Office Address
333 Cedar Street, FMB 102
Department of Surgery
P.O. Box 208062
New Haven, CT 06520-8062

E-mail
tobias.carling@yale.edu

Office Phone
(203) 785-2697

Fax
(203) 737-2116