Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome, MRCS, FWACS (6 July 1924 - 28 August 2003) was a Ghanaian physician and academic.
After a short spell in the Gold Coast he returned to United Kingdom in 1957 for further studies at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College of London; a constituent college of the University of London completing in 1958.
He returned to Ghana in 1958 and worked at the Ministry of Health as a special grade medical officer.
[7] That same year he became an associate research fellow and an honorary consultant for the Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics, and also a member of the World Health Organization Scientific Advisory Panel for Onchocerciasis Control Project of the Volta River Basin Area.
[10] In 1979, he was appointed first director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana.