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Rob Gore
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| Born | 1977 |
| Alma mater | Morehouse College ('98) State University of New York ('02) |
| Employer(s) | Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Known for | Emergency Medicine |
| Website | https://kavibrooklyn.org/ |
Robert (Rob) Gore (born 1977) is an American emergency physician and the founder of the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI). He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. He was an inaugural TED Resident in 2016, and in 2018 named a CNN Hero.
Gore grew up in Brooklyn.[1] He is the son of a community activist and a teacher.[2] He studied at Morehouse College and graduated in 1998.[3] He attended University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and graduated in 2002.[1][4] He was a Chief Medical Resident at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.[1]
Gore has worked with Clinique Espérance et Vie, a medical clinic in Haiti that supports Terrier-Rouge and nearby areas, since 2008. He launched a crowdfunding campaign to translate their activities into a television series, The Global Empowerment Project.[5] He collaborated with Marc Baptise and Brian Paupaw.[6]
Gore founded the SUNY Downstate Medical Center Minority Medical Student Emergency Medicine (MMSEM) Summer Fellowship - a mentoring program for underrepresented minorities in medicine. Gore believes that violence is a public health problem.[2] In 2009 he founded the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI), an in-school, hospital and community non-profit anti-violence program that looks to teach young people how to resolve conflicts peacefully.[7] He developed a team of Hospital Responders, people who can respond sensitively to challenging situations that occur in a community.[1] Gore ran a series of breakfast meetings to help young black people diffuse disputes.[8] The program grew in 2011, with Gore encouraging his family, colleagues and friends to take part.[9] KAVI is part of NYC Health + Hospitals with similar initiatives in Harlem and The Bronx.[10] He was chosen as one of 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholars.[11][12] The program is supported by the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Clinton Presidential Center.[13] During his scholarship, Gore worked on a proposal to increase impact and resource for KAVI.[14]
In 2016 he delivered a Ted Talk titled Healing Inner-City Trauma.[15] He was a TED resident in the inaugural program in 2016.[16][17] He discussed KAVI on History NOW in 2016.[18] His achievements were honoured by the United Hospital Fund in 2017.[9] That year he was selected as one of Black Enterprise's 100 Men of Distinction.[19] He was selected as a CNN Hero in 2018.[20][21][22] He was awarded the Citizens' Committee for Children Vanguard Award for his work serving at-risk youth.[23] He is represented by the Serendipity Literary Agency.[24]
Gore's first book, Treating Violence, was released on May 7, 2024, through Beacon Press publishing.
