Dr. Durwood Neal Jr., MD, FACS

Expert Publications

• Complicated urinary tract infections.
• Interstitial cystitis: evaluation and related conditions.
• Robert Benjamin Greenblatt and his many pursuits: an unlikely founder of the testosterone pellet.
• A Paratesticular Serous Borderline Tumor in a Pediatric Patient With Proteus Syndrome.
• Continent Catheterizable Vesicostomy: An Alternative Surgical Modality for Pediatric Patients With Large Bladder Capacity.
• Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Impact on Venereal Disease During World War I: The Chaste of American Soldiers.

Media Releases

Get to know Urologist Dr. Durwood Neal Jr., who serves patients in Augusta, Georgia. 

Dr. Neal Jr. is a well-versed urologist whose clinical interests include pediatric urology and incontinence. He is a Professor at Augusta University & sees patients at Augusta University Medical Center.

Augusta University Medical Center is a 520-bed tertiary hospital that provides many services not available in other facilities in the region. Specialized services include the region’s best-equipped and busiest ACS verified Level I Trauma Center, serving patients from over 13 counties, and specialized transplantation for pancreas and kidney.

Previously, Dr. Neal Jr. served as the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Urology & a Professor within the Department of Surgery – Urology Division at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is also the Former Chair of Urology at Southern Illinois School of Medicine, and the University of Missouri.

With a broad educational background, he graduated with his medical degree from The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. He then went on to perform his internship and residency in urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and his fellowship in urologic research at Tulane University.

A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), the doctor is board-certified in urology by the American Board of Urology (ABU). The mission of the ABU is to act for the benefit of the public by establishing and maintaining standards of certification for urologists, working with certified urologists to achieve lifelong learning to insure the delivery of high quality, safe, and ethical urologic care.

Specializing in treating conditions affecting the urinary tract in men and sometimes women, Dr. Neal Jr’s research interests include urinary tract infections and kidney stones.

Urology, also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs. Urologists specialize in diseases of the urinary tract and the male reproductive system. Patients may be referred to a urologist if their physician suspects they may need treatment for a condition relating to the bladder, prostate, urethra, ureters, kidneys, and adrenal glands. 

On a more personal note, Dr. Neal Jr. speaks both English and Spanish.

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