Dr. Tobias Carling of the Carling Adrenal Center
Tobias Carling MD, PhD, FACS. Dr. Carling is one of the world's most experienced adrenal surgeons, and a surgeon-scientist whose work covers adrenal gland function and disease, adrenal tumors and cancer, and all forms of adrenal gland surgery. Dr. Carling has extensive experience with advanced minimally invasive adrenal and endocrine operations. Dr. Carling personally performs about one in eight adrenalectomies in the United States. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Carling is a member of both the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES).
Dr. Tobias Carling as Chief of Endocrine Surgery at Yale University. Dr. Carling spent 17.5 years at Yale University and the Yale University School of Medicine where he served as the Chief of Endocrine Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Program Director of the Yale Endocrine Surgery Fellowship and the Founder & Director of the Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory, a research program focused on the molecular pathogenesis of tumors arising in the adrenal, thyroid and parathyroid glands.
The Carling Adrenal Center
Dr. Carling moved his adrenal surgery program to Tampa, Florida in early 2020 to start the Carling Adrenal Center. Since January 2022, the Carling Adrenal Center has operated exclusively at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery in Tampa, where Dr. Carling personally performs every operation: up to 750 adrenal operations a year.Adrenal Gland and Adrenal Surgery Expert. Dr. Carling has dedicated his entire career to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of adrenal gland tumors. He built the Yale University Adrenal Tumor Program into one of the busiest adrenal surgery programs in the United States. The Carling Adrenal Center specializes in all forms of adrenal surgery and offers minimally invasive adrenalectomy to nearly all patients, including those with primary aldosteronism, adrenal hypercortisolism and pheochromocytoma.
Dr. Carling's Contributions to Adrenal Tumor Disease and Adrenal Research. Dr. Carling's research has contributed to the understanding of adrenal tumor growth, function and cure. Having focused his Ph.D. studies on the molecular and tumor genetics of endocrine tumors, including inherited adrenal and other endocrine tumor susceptibility syndromes, Dr. Carling has published in leading medical and scientific journals, including: Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS, and Human Molecular Genetics. He publishes on primary aldosteronism, adrenal hypercortisolism, pheochromocytoma and adrenal surgery. As a physician-leader, he implemented improved endocrine medical and surgical care, as well as enhanced cancer prevention and genetics programs across the Yale-New Haven Health Systems, and now brings this expertise to his own center in Florida. You can review Dr. Carling's numerous medical and scientific publications here.
Dr. Carling's Education. He obtained his MD and PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. He came to the United States in 2000 for a postdoctoral fellowship 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 and Yale University School of Medicine, joining the faculty at Yale University in 2008. He became the Director of all Endocrine Surgery at Yale and the Director of the Endocrine Tumor Program for the Smilow Cancer Hospital and the Yale-New Haven Health Systems in 2013.
Have One of the World's Most Experienced Adrenal Surgeons Perform Your Adrenal Surgery
Dr. Carling performing a partial, adrenal-sparing Mini Back Scope Adrenalectomy (MBSA).
Dr. Carling is one of the highest-volume adrenal surgeons in the world, performing up to 750 adrenal operations a year. About half of our patients come from outside Florida, including from around the world. Our staff will help with every aspect of your trip here except the travel itself. We'll even help you with hotel rooms.
A short operation and a short hospital stay. More than 95% of our operations are performed as a Mini Back Scope Adrenalectomy (MBSA), a minimally invasive operation through the lower back, and most patients go home the next morning. Nearly all patients will have three small scars on their lower back, each only one-half to one inch long. The operation typically takes about 20 minutes. Dr. Carling believes that every patient should have the same operation that he would want for himself or his family, and thus we don't use surgeons-in-training, surgery residents or surgery fellows to do your operation. If you come to the Carling Adrenal Center, Dr. Carling personally performs your operation and takes care of you at the hospital.
If you want to become our patient, we have a separate page that explains the process and the cost. Read how to become our patient.
The Carling Adrenal Center is dedicated to adrenal surgery only. Since January 2022 we have operated exclusively at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery in Tampa. We will take care of all your adrenal surgical needs.
The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery in Tampa
Dr. Carling and the surgeons of the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery work together to help patients with adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid disease
The Carling Adrenal Center is one of the specialized surgery centers within the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. There we work alongside two other high-volume programs in endocrine tumor surgery: the Norman Parathyroid Center and the Clayman Thyroid Center. Teams that each focus on a single endocrine gland (adrenal, thyroid and parathyroid) work under one roof in a hospital built only for endocrine surgery. Read more about who we are.
- Read more about thyroid tumors, thyroid cancers, and thyroid surgery.
- Read more about the Clayman Thyroid Center.
- Read more about parathyroid glands, hyperparathyroidism and parathyroid surgery.
- Read more about the Norman Parathyroid Center.
Dr. Tobias Carling's Other Leadership Positions Dr. Carling also held a major leadership position at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University Medical School, overseeing all aspects of the Endocrine Neoplasia/Cancer Program as the Clinical Program and Disease Aligned Research Team Leader. This leadership position involved overseeing all the multidisciplinary care of patients with endocrine tumor disease including adrenal, thyroid, parathyroid and endocrine pancreas. This included medical and surgical treatment of endocrine and adrenal tumors as well as molecular diagnostics and cancer genetics of endocrine tumors.
Last updated October 2026.
What to read next
- Have your Adrenal Surgery with Dr. Carling. We have an entire page that will walk you through this process. We take almost all insurance types for the operation, but some people will elect to pay for an Online Second Opinion Consultation with Dr. Carling before traveling to Tampa for the operation.
- Mini Back Scope Adrenalectomy (MBSA) Dr. Carling performs up to 750 adrenal operations a year, more than 95% of them as an MBSA. Learn more about this quick operation to remove an adrenal tumor.
- Standard Adrenal Surgery and Other Adrenal Operations. See the other ways adrenal surgery is performed, and why we believe they are not the best choice for most patients.
- How to become our patient