Emily Volk Named Chief Medical Officer for Baptist Health Floyd
Emily Volk, M.D., has accepted the position as Chief Medical Officer for Baptist Health Floyd. Dr. Volk comes to the Southern Indiana system after serving...
Emily Volk, M.D., has accepted the position as Chief Medical Officer for Baptist Health Floyd. Dr. Volk comes to the Southern Indiana system after serving as senior vice president, clinical services at University Health System in San Antonio, a position she held for four years.
Dr. Volk is originally from Kansas City and said she was excited to get back to the middle of the country. She received her medical degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and a surgical pathology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She also completed a Cytopathology Fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. She later received her Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Volk is very involved with the College of American Pathologists and is currently the organization’s president-elect.
“My goal in the first several months of my job is to meet with physicians, leaders of the medical staff, nurses and other members of the clinical team to learn better what our opportunities are and what our strengths are,” she said. “What are the priorities of the medical staff? What things are going well and what things do they think we can do even better? My ultimate goal is to be a bridge for the medical staff and administration and help identify and remove barriers, if there are any.”
Dr. Volk said Baptist Health is “a terrific organization with a strong history of being physician led.”
WittKieffer’s Rachel Polhemus, Jason Petros and Imran Ali, M.D., led this search.