Donald Neal, MD

I grew up in a remote Alaskan village north of the Arctic circle. I was inspired by the drastic changes that plants and animals experience with each changing of the season, and followed my curiosity to Stanford University where I majored in human biology with a focus in neurobiology. There, I pursued basic science research into the distribution, structure, and function of oxytocin receptors in non-human primates.

Following graduation, I worked at the Center for Neurodegenerative Research at the University of Pennsylvania. There, I performed tissue and DNA banking for patients with various hereditable neurodegenerative disorders and studied a hexanucleotide repeat associated with both ALS and frontotemporal degeneration.

I attended medical school at Thomas Jefferson University and spent the year between my third and fourth years of medical school performing clinical research with Dr. Jeremy Etzkorn and his Mohs surgery colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania.

I graduated medical school in 2019, completed my transitional intern year in Reading, Pennsylvania. and dermatology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I stayed at Mayo for my dermatopathology fellowship. During residency and fellowship, my focus was been on quality improvement and medical education.

At the completion of my training, I joined Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts where I spent one year as a general dermatologist and instructor at Harvard Medical school. We moved to Boulder, Colorado in August 2025 and I joined Clarity Dermatology, where I practice both general dermatology and dermatopathology.

In addition to dermatopathology, I enjoy cooking and spending time in the mountains with my wife, our young son, and our dog Patch.