Donald Herbert Gent

Background

Gent, Donald Herbert was born on December 8, 1926 in Binghamton, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Wilfred and Cora Dorothea (Tripp) Gent.

Education

Bachelor, Hamilton College, 1949; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1952.

Career

Resident surgery and internal medicine, Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania, 1953-1957; private practice internal medicine, Binghamton, New York, 1957-1964; resident in psychiatry, Warren (Pennsylvania) Eastern State Hospital, 1964-1967; assistant clinical professor health science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1968-1970; county mental health director, Montgomery County Mental Health Clinic, Amsterdam, New York, 1970-1972; assistant clinical professor psychiatry, Albany (New York) Medical College, 1970-1972; staff psychiatrist, director adolescent progressive, Fair-Oaks Hospital, Summit, New Jersey, 1972-1976; clinical assistant professor psychiatry, College Medicine & Dentistry, New Jersey Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, 1972-1976; clinical director department psychiatry private practice, Hanover (Pennsylvania) General Hospital, 1976-1988; private practice, Hanover (Pennsylvania) General Hospital, 1988-1993; consultant, Adams-Hanover Counseling Center, since 1995. Member of advisory board York/Adams Mental Health and Retardation Program, 1983-1991. Department chairman medicine Hanover General Hospital, 1988-1990.

Member medical mission trip, Peru, 1995, India, 1998.

Achievements

• Donald Herbert Gent has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vice president Citizens for Decency through Law, Hanover, 1983-1988. With United States Army, 1944-1946. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life).

Member Psychiatric Physicians Pennsylvania, Center Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society (president 1982-1983), Christian Medical and Dental Society (president Psychiatric section 1987-1989, 93-95), Pennsylvania Medical Society.

Interests

• Avocations: golf, reading, photography.

Connections

Married Myrtle Gertrude Miller, June 25, 1949. Children: Donna Helene, Douglas Harlan, Rebecca Ann, Kathryn Leigh, David Leslie.

Father:

Thomas Wilfred Gent

Mother:

Cora Dorothea (Tripp) Gent

Spouse:

Myrtle Gertrude Miller

child:

David Leslie Gent

child:

Rebecca Ann Gent

child:

Douglas Harlan Gent

child:

Donna Helene Gent

child:

Kathryn Leigh Gent