Tobias Carling MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Endocrine Surgery); Section Chief; Director, Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory

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Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Cancer Center, Yale: Endocrine Oncology Program

Genetics Consultation Service

Surgery: Endocrine/General Surgery

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Biography

Dr. Carling is an Endocrine Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory. His clinical interests are surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal gland, and endocrine pancreas, including minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgical techniques. The research interests involve molecular and tumor genetics of endocrine tumors, including inherited endocrine tumor susceptibility syndromes. He also studies the regulation of calcium homeostasis and nuclear hormone receptors, co-regulators and their role in tumor development.
He obtained his MD and PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Cancer Genetics at The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA. He completed his training in both General Surgery and Endocrine Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital.