Dr. Emily E. Volk, president of the College of American Pathologists since September 2021, has been active on the CAP Board of Governors since 2013 and in the CAP at large for two decades. She has led numerous CAP committees and councils, including the Council on Government and Professional Affairs, and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Pathologists Quality Registry. Additionally, Dr. Volk served on the PathPAC Board of Directors, and the CAP’s House of Delegates representing both Michigan and Texas.
She is on faculty at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and serves as the University of Louisville Health system vice president of pathology and clinical laboratories. She recently completed a two-year role as the chief medical officer at Baptist Health Floyd. Prior to moving to the Louisville metropolitan area, Dr. Volk worked as the senior vice president of clinical services and faculty pathologist at University Health System in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Volk received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from the University of Missouri in Kansas City and her MBA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and a cytopathology fellowship from the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.