Robert J. Volk

Robert J. Volk is a Professor and Hubert L. and Olive Stringer Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research focuses on shared decision-making, patient decision aids, and risk-based cancer screening, particularly in lung cancer. Recent work includes a JAMA-published direct-to-patient digital health program for lung cancer screening, a Lancet Public Health meta-analysis on personalised risk-based screening perceptions, and post-hoc analyses of PLCO and NLST trials examining comorbidity impacts on screening mortality benefits. He also investigates smoking cessation interventions in screening settings and sex/gender reporting in decision aid trials. Volk currently leads a $1.4 million project developing a patient decision aid for heavy smokers considering lung cancer screening, with extensive international collaborations in health policy and medical decision-making.