Stephen Asher was born in California, is a graduate of UCLA, and received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He remained there as an intern in internal medicine, was in the Public Health Service for two years, and then completed his residency in Neurology at the University of California San Francisco. He has practiced in Idaho for the past 34 years and serves as the medical director of the Movement Disorders Center at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center.