23 Oct Trevor Pour, MD: A 2025 Unsung Hero

During a period of transition in our medical director team, Dr. Pour has stepped in to fill a role in quality and safety that has been instrumental to ensuring we can deliver safe and quality care to our patients. Dr. Pour serves as a liaison between the medical director team and the residents having previously worked in residency education and in that role is able to review cases but also provide needed support to trainees who have experienced those difficult cases.

Dr. Pour has consistently and reliably stepped up to review difficult cases and provide comprehensive reviews and data to support his viewpoints. He has done this with his free time and we could not have kept up or provided such support to our colleagues for these trying cases without Dr. Pour’s help.

Recipient Bio:
Trevor Pour, MD, serves as the Director for Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the recipient of numerous faculty teaching awards at both the graduate and undergraduate level and is academically active and published in the fields of palliative care, pediatrics, emergency gynecology, health policy, and medical education.

Dr. Pour earned his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai, including a year as chief resident. In addition to his clinical activity, which includes both adult and pediatric emergency medicine, Dr. Pour serves a number of other roles in the Mount Sinai Health System. Clinically, a portion of his clinical time is spent at a Mount Sinai affiliated critical-access IHS hospital in South Dakota. Within the Icahn School of Medicine, he is the module director for first-year Anatomy, the director for a third-year course on clinical skills, career development, and patient safety, and he oversees multiple student electives in emergency medicine. He also serves on the steering committees for the systemwide Evidence-Based Practice group and the Mount Sinai Hospital-based Difficult Airway Response Team (DART). Finally, he provides specialized sports medicine to athletes in New York City, both at the New York City Marathon and the US Open.

– Kristen Kelly, MD