Robert Gore, MD '02
Distinguished Medical Alumnus
Robert Gore, MD, a 2002 graduate of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is founder and executive director of the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI), a youth violence prevention program. In 2018, as a result of his efforts with KAVI, he was named a Top 10 CNN Hero, a global honor that celebrates everyday people changing the world.
An emergency department physician and clinical assistant professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in Brooklyn, Gore has served extensively on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis in New York City. He is the founding director of the Brooklyn-based Minority Medical Student Emergency Medicine Summer Fellowship, a mentoring and enrichment program for underrepresented minorities interested in emergency medicine.