Steven Lloyd Neal, MD, was born in Nephi, Utah, on Feb. 9, 1953, and was raised in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray. He went on a mission to Fukuoka, Japan from 1972-74. He attended BYU, graduating in Asian Studies and pre-med in 1977. While he was attending BYU, he met Susan Clark from Sunnyvale, California. The two married and are the parents of six daughters. He went to medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and did his surgical residency in Head and Neck Surgery at University of California at San Diego, finishing in 1987. He was then recruited by Pendleton, Oregon to practice, where he has been for the past 20 years. He is known in his specialty for teaching aesthetics in facial surgery, and is an instructor in sculpture at the annual Art of Rhinoplasty Course in San Francisco to help surgeons with visualizing surgical possibilities. This specialty has led to some large art projects, in which he is currently involved. He serves as bishop of the Pendleton Oregon 2nd Ward.
