Join the Medical Heritage Center and Courage to Teach for the Eighth Annual Humanism in Medicine Last Lecture featuring Quinn Capers, IV, MD, FACC, FACP for his presentation, "An Academic Physician’s Mission to Incorporate Activism into his Clinical, Educational and Scholarly Work"

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To Enhance Diversity and Mitigate Racial Bias in Medicine: An Academic Physician’s Mission to Incorporate Activism into his Clinical, Educational and Scholarly Work 

We welcome Dr. Quinn Capers, IV, as our eighth Last Lecture speaker. Dr. Capers will discuss his career as an advocate for diversity in medicine as a strategy to reduce healthcare disparities. Barriers to achieving a diverse physician workforce will be reviewed, including recent legislative and judicial rulings that have the potential to restrict diversity initiatives. Finally, Dr. Capers will outline strategies to recruit a diverse group of physicians. 

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch first appeared in print in 2008. Dr. Pausch simply asked, “What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?” 

Free and open to the public. Support for this special event is provided by the Medical Heritage Center, the Courage to Teach Board, the James V. Warren, MD Medical Humanities Fund, the Linda C. Stone, MD Program for Humanism and the Arts in Medicine, and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. 

Register for in-person attendance at go.osu.edu/LastLectureInPerson24.

Register for Zoom (virtual) attendance at go.osu.edu/LastLectureZoom24.

About Dr. Quinn Capers IV

Dr. Capers has been widely decorated as an educator, clinician, and champion of diversity enhancement in medicine. He is a graduate of Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology at Emory University. He has spent time in private practice and has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, The Ohio State University, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center before joining Howard University as the Chair of the Department of Medicine in January 2024.

Physician peers have named him one of America’s “Best Doctors” 10 years in a row, and his patient satisfaction scores placed in the 90th percentile nationally for six years in a row. In 2019 he was elected to The Ohio State University’s Mazzaferri – Ellison Society of Master Clinicians and is a member of the Association of University Cardiologists, an invitation-only honor society of the country’s leading academic cardiologists.

As an educator he has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards. He received the American Heart Association’s national Laennec Clinician-Educator Award for 2018. The OSU College of Medicine’s graduating class of 2019 named him the “Professor of the Year,” an award reserved for the most impactful educator in their 4 years of medical school. At OSU he served as the associate dean for admissions from 2009-2019, leading the strategies to recruit, interview, and select over 2,000 future physicians. In 2022 he was inducted into the OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s “Hall of Fame” for his enduring impact on enhancing diversity and inclusion for across the campus.

Prior to assuming his current role as the Chair of Medicine at Howard University, he was the Associate Dean of Faculty Diversity at the University of Texas Southwestern where he received several teaching awards and led efforts to appoint and mentor vice chairs of diversity in all 33 basic science and clinical departments.

Considered a thought leader in the areas of diversity in medicine, racial healthcare disparities, and bias in medicine, Capers is a highly sought-after speaker. He has trained thousands of physicians and scientists in strategies to reduce implicit racial bias in patient care and in the selection of medical students, trainees, and faculty.

Support for this special event is provided by the Medical Heritage Center, the Courage to Teach Board, the Linda C. Stone, MD, Program for Humanism and the Arts in Medicine and The Ohio State University College of Medicine.