Quinn Capers IV is an American cardiologist practicing at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is a professor of medicine and vice dean for Faculty Development and Leadership at Rush Medical College. Capers has won numerous awards as a clinician-educator and advocate of diversity enhancement in medicine as an evidence-based method to reduce health disparities. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology.
Capers served 2009–2019 as associate dean for admissions at the OSUCOM.[1] While dean of admissions he led a team that generated a highly cited report describing efforts to measure and mitigate racial bias in medical school admissions.[2] Prior to his departure for UTSW in 2019, Capers was named vice dean for Faculty Affairs at OSUCOM.
In December 2020, Capers was recruited to the University of Texas Southwestern as associate dean for faculty diversity and the inaugural vice chair for diversity and inclusion in the Department of Internal Medicine.[3]
In January 2024, Capers was named chair of the Department of Medicine at Howard University School of Medicine.
Honors and Awards
2018 Laennec Clinician-Educator Award from the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology Leadership; invited lecture titled, "The Lack of Diversity in the US Physician and Cardiology Workforce is a Public Health Emergency: The Way Forward".[4]
Quinn Capers IV publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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