About Quinn Capers IV
Dr. Capers is an interventional cardiologist, professor of medicine, and transformational leader in academic medicine. He has been widely decorated as an educator, clinician, and champion of diversity enhancement in medicine. A graduate of Howard University and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Capers trained in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology at Emory University. From 2009-2019, he served as the associate dean for admissions at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. During his tenure the diversity of the medical school classes reached its highest mark ever while the average Medical College Admissions Test scores of the entering classes remained at or above the 90th percentile. While overseeing admissions he led the first study to document the presence and extent of unconscious racial bias in medical school admissions. The manuscript describing this project in Academic Medicine has been cited more than 300 times and is used across the US and internationally to mitigate the impact of bias in selection processes.
While at the Ohio State University he was voted the "Professor of the Year" by the class of 2019 and inducted into the Society of Master Clinicians and the university's Diversity and Inclusion "Hall of Fame" -the latter for his impact in enhancing diversity in the medical school, various GME training programs, and the faculty. Nationally, he is the recipient of the American Heart Association's Laennec Clinician-Educator Award, the Association of American Medical Colleges Exemplary Leadership Award in Diversity and Inclusion, the American College of Cardiology's Distinguished Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion and he is a member of the Association of University Cardiologists, a national honorary of America's leading academic cardiologists. Capers has published extensively on diversity and healthcare disparities and has been an invited speaker at more than 70 major academic medical centers in the US and abroad.
