Tobias Carling MD, PhD

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

Biographical Info

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.

International Activity

• Uppsala, Sweden (2004)
  Annual Meeting of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES)
• Stockholm, Sweden (2001)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Sydney, Australia (2000)
  11th International Congress of Endocrinology
• Stockholm, Sweden (1999)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Stockholm, Sweden (1998)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Stockholm, Sweden (1997)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Västerås, Sweden (1997)
  Swedish Surgical Society meeting
• Stockholm, Sweden (1996)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Lindau, Germany (1996)
  46. Tagungen der Nobelpreisträger
• Stockholm, Sweden (1995)
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting
• Århus, Denmark (1995)
  XXIV European symposium on calcified tissues
• Vth International Workshop
  Stockholm, Sweden (1994)
  Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia

Education & Training

Ph.D.

Uppsala University (1997)

M.D.

Uppsala University (2000)

Resident

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, General Surgery (2002 - 2007)

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, Cancer Genetics (2000 - 2001)

Fellow

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Endocrine Surgery (2007 - 2008)

Board Certification

Surgery, General, Board Certified  (2008)

Honors & Recognition

• Doris Duke-Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator
  Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (2010)
• Quest Diagnostic Young Investigator Award
  The American Endocrine (2001)
• Postdoctoral Scholarship Award
  Wenner-Gren stiftelserna (1999)
• Best scientific presentation
  Annual Swedish Medical Society Meeting (1999)
• Göransson-Sandvikens research scholarship
  Gästrike-Hälsinge Nation, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1999)
• Travel Award
  Wenner-Gren stiftelserna (1999)
• Postdoctoral Scholarship Award
  Swedish Society for Medical Research (1998)
• Göransson-Sandvikens Research Scholarship Award
  Gästrike-Hälsinge Nation, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1997)
• Travel Award
  Swedish Medical Research Council for Visiting Scientist at University of Connecticut, CT (1997)
• Travel Award
  The American Endocrine Society (1997)
• The Lennanders Scholarship Award
  Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1997)
• The Ciba-Geigy Scholarship Award
  The Swedish Endocrine Society (1996)
• Travel Award
  Swedish Medical Society (1996)
• The Lindau Scholarship Award
  The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (1996)
• The Signe och Seda Hermanssons Scholarship Award
  Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1996)
• H och G Ankarstrands Scholarship Award
  Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1995)
• The Lennanders Scholarship Award
  Uppsala University (1995)

Professional Service

• Member, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) NIH/NCI (07/01/2010)