Dr. David P. Capper is the medical director of Christian Community Health Services and Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas. He is also the director and former administrator of Covenant Hospice & Palliative Care, now a part of the Compassus family. He serves on the Compassus Medical Directors Advisory Council.
Capper is active in both state and local medical communities. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Science at Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, and adjunct assistant professor of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth. He is a clinical preceptor for students of the medicine, nursing and physician assistant schools. He also serves on the public grievance and humanitarian committees for the Tarrant County Medical Society, is the chair of the Plaza Medical Ethics Committee and a member of the Tarrant County Ethics Consortium and the palliative care team at Baylor All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth. He is also a past president of the Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine.
Capper is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Mildred Hogstel Award from the Tarrant Area Gerontological Society, Medical Director of the Year from the Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization and Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Tarrant County Medical Society. On a national level, Capper is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine.
Capper earned his undergraduate degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He completed his internship and residency at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, and his chief residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland.