Dore graduated from UCSB (’71) and USC Keck School of Medicine (‘75), completed his Surgery Internship at LAC-USC Medical Center and residency at LAC-Harbor UCLA Medical Center, is an Associate Professor at UCI, served 12 years as Chief of Dermatology at Hoag, and since 1979 has practiced in Newport Beach including currently as Medical Director of Newport Dermatology & Laser Associates. He served 29 years on the Saddleback Unified School District board. In 2009 Dore enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 60 and requested a battlefield assignment in Afghanistan. In 2011 he put his practice on hold and his life at risk when deployed to a combat theater outside Kabul as a Brigade Surgeon responsible administratively at Camp Phoenix and 10 more-forward bases for the health of 10,000 troops, all health-care personnel, physician assignments, and setting up walk-in blood banks and clinically for training combat medics in the latest battlefield first-aid, particularly the use of tourniquets, as the most common cause of death in combat is bleed-out from wounds that might be stanched with better tourniquets or better instruction in their use. His decorations include the Afghan Campaign Medal with Campaign Bronze Star Device, and Joint Service Commendation, National Defense Service, Army Achievement (2), Army Service, Armed Forces Reserve, ISAF NATO, and Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medals, and an Army Overseas Ribbon.