Has David Gentile received any honors, awards, or notable recognitions from the universities he attended?
Executive summary
Available reporting and institutional profiles identify honors awarded to medical doctor David P. Gentile—specifically the Robert S. Davis Resident Teaching Award in 2015 at the University of Rochester Medical Center—while athletic awards appear for a different, younger David Gentile (student-athlete at Susquehanna) [1] [2]. Major national prizes in the results (Dan David Prize, The David Prize) are unrelated to either individual in the cited material [3] [4] [5].
1. Medical career honors: a documented teaching award
The University of Rochester profile for David P. Gentile, M.D., lists the Robert S. Davis Resident Teaching Award for 2015 among his credentials and achievements, demonstrating at least one formal recognition tied to the university where he practiced and taught [1]. The UR Medicine entry connects Gentile’s MD from the University of Pennsylvania and his residency at the University of Rochester, and explicitly records that resident teaching award as part of his professional honors [1].
2. Athletic honors belong to a different David Gentile
An athletics award page from the Landmark Conference documents a David Gentile earning “Athlete of the Week” honors in November 2024 for exceptional swimming performances while at Susquehanna University [2]. This item describes a freshman swimmer who won multiple freestyle events and set personal records; it does not connect to the physician David P. Gentile or the GPB Capital founder reported elsewhere in the news [2]. Available sources do not mention any crossover between the Susquehanna athlete and the physician or the private-equity executive.
3. High-profile national prizes in the search results are unrelated
Several results return information about the Dan David Prize and other named awards (Dan David Prize pages, AP and Princeton stories) but those refer to historians and academics such as Beth Lew-Williams and a roster of scholars; the prize material in the results does not link to any David Gentile in the provided reporting [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. Available sources do not mention David Gentile as a recipient of the Dan David Prize or similar large national awards.
4. News coverage of David Gentile (private-equity founder) focuses on legal developments, not university honors
Major news outlets in the provided results (Bloomberg, CNN, Politico, UPI, Fast Company) cover the commutation of GPB Capital founder David Gentile’s sentence and legal rulings, including restitution issues, but they do not report honors or awards conferred on him by universities he attended [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]. Available sources do not mention university honors for the GPB executive.
5. Distinguish among people with the same name to avoid conflation
The materials show at least three distinct contexts for the name David Gentile: a practicing urologist with a UR Medicine profile and a 2015 teaching award (David P. Gentile, M.D.) [1]; a college swimmer at Susquehanna receiving Athlete of the Week [2]; and a private-equity founder whose sentence was commuted in late 2025 [8] [9] [10] [12]. Conflating honors across these individuals would be a reporting error; sources explicitly tie the teaching award to the physician and the athletic award to the student-athlete [1] [2].
6. What the sources do not say — limits of the record
The provided sources do not list any university-awarded honors for the GPB founder David Gentile—no alumni awards, honorary degrees, or campus recognitions appear in the cited reporting [8] [9] [10] [12]. The UR Medicine profile confirms one concrete university-linked honor for the physician David P. Gentile (Robert S. Davis Resident Teaching Award, 2015) but does not list other university honors; if additional recognitions exist, they are not included in the documents you supplied [1]. The Dan David Prize and similar high-value awards in the results are unrelated to any David Gentile in the cited items [3] [4] [5].
7. Takeaway for readers and next steps for verification
Based on the supplied reporting, the only documented university-linked honor is the Robert S. Davis Resident Teaching Award for David P. Gentile, M.D. [1]; a separate David Gentile earned a collegiate athletic award [2]; and the high-profile legal coverage of GPB founder David Gentile contains no university honors [8] [9] [10] [12]. To confirm any additional honors for any specific David Gentile, request university alumni records, official alumni-award lists, or institutional press releases not included in the current set of sources — those documents are not found in the reporting provided here (not found in current reporting).