CareMount Medical in Chappaqua has announced the appointment of Dr. John Wolk as its new clinical laboratory director. Wolk will be responsible for managing the overall quality of diagnostic laboratory tests across CareMount Medical”™s 19 lab sites in the Hudson Valley. He had been chief of microbiological services at the Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research in Valhalla.
Wolk will be based at CareMount”™s Dr. Abe Levy Clinical Laboratory in Brewster. Among the areas covered by the lab are chemistry, hematology, coagulation, urinalysis, immunoassay, vitamin D testing and testing for Lyme disease.
Wolk received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a fellowship in pediatric pathology at St. Christopher”™s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He is an assistant professor of pathology at New York Medical College.