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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2001

Ralph Larry Corsetti, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Am Soc of Breast Surgeons

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Clinic

General Surgery

101 East Judge Tanner Blvd.

Suite 406

Covington, LA 70433

United States

Contact Information

Administrative Assistant
Name:Rachelle Riley

Biography

Education MD: Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Residency: General Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI Biography Dr. Corsetti is a Professor of Surgery at the Tulane University School of Medicine within the Department of Surgery with a clinical practice in surgical oncology including breast, endocrine, and melanoma surgery at Tulane's Northshore campus based at Lakeview Regional Medical Center in Covington, LA. Dr. Corsetti received his Bachelor of Arts degree graduating Magna Cum Laude from Boston University in 1987. He then earned his Doctor of Medicine degree as a Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1991. Dr. Corsetti first moved to New Orleans in 1991 for his general surgery residency at Tulane University School of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals program which included Charity Hospital. He completed the five year general surgery residency program in 1996. Dr. Corsetti then sucessfully completed a two year Society of Surgical Oncology approved clinical and research fellowship in surgical oncology at the Brown University School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals in Providence, Rhode Island from 1996 to 1998. Since completing surgical training in 1998, Dr. Corsetti has been a member of both private and group academic clinical practices. He has 25 years of clinical experience in general surgery/surgical oncology with a focused interest in breast, endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands), and melanoma surgery. Dr. Corsetti has had an extensive regional clinical presence in breast, endocrine, and melanoma surgery with expertise in the surgical management of breast cancer as well as benign breast disease and the high-risk breast patient. His practice also has a focus on endocrine and melanoma surgery. Please see and refer to website link above for further details and information.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast biopsy
  • breast cancer
  • Breast Disease/Cancer
  • breast ultrasound
  • core needle biopsy
  • duct excision/microdochotomy
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • Endocrine (Gland)
  • hyperparathyroidism
  • pancreatic endocrine tumors
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • pheochromocytoma
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • Minimally Invasive Procedures

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • basal cell cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • endocrine cancer
  • melanoma
  • skin cancer
  • Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)
  • thyroid cancer/nodules

Hospital Appointments

Tulane Lakeview Regional Medical Center

Covington, LA

Attending

11/2020—Present

Avala Hospital

Covington, LA

Attending

11/2020—Present

Academic Appointments

Tulane University School of Medicine

New Orleans, LA

Professor

11/2020—Present