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PHYSICIANS
 Debra H. Clapp, MD, FACOG
Before she started elementary school, Dr. Clapp announced her plans to become a doctor to her parents. While the exact field of medicine changed as she progressed through high school, the University of Virginia, and Duke Medical School, she always knew she would be a doctor preferably in a surgical field. She chose Obstetrics and Gynecology during her clinical rotation on labor and delivery and has never had any doubt she made the right decision. She completed her residency at the Ohio University Hospital in 1985 and became a fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1987 after completing the requirements for board certification. She has enjoyed practicing medicine in Roanoke, Virginia, since 1985 and has received the award for the Top Doctor in the Roanoker Magazine several times.
She met her husband on the second day of class at Duke Medical School. After they moved to Roanoke they were blessed with a daughter and a son. They live on a small farm that is home to many dogs and horses. When Dr. Clapp is not tending to patients, she enjoys her family, riding horses, traveling and reading.
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 Abby A. Smith, MD, FACOG
Dr. Smith was raised in Massachusetts and attended Williams College for her undergraduate degree. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She completed both her medical school degree and residency training at the University of Rochester in 1992 where she met and married her husband. She was board certified in 1994 and is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Our practice takes pride in her advanced laparoscopic skills including her introduction of the laparoscopic hysterectomy to the valley. She and her husband have three sons all of whom are actively involved in baseball. She enjoys waterskiing, running and spending time with her family.
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 Dr. Kelly
Dr. Kelly graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1968. After graduation, he attended Naval Flight School and was awarded his wings in 1970. As a carrier based pilot, he was deployed on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt until 1973. At the completion of military service, Dr. Kelly attended Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1980.
He is board certified and a member of the Roanoke Valley OB-GYN Society, the South Atlantic OB-GYN Society and past member of the Board of Trustees of Lewis Gale Medical Center. Currently he is on the Board of Directors of the Roanoke Academy of Medicine and Chief of OB-GYN at Lewis Gale Hospital.
Dr. Kelly has lived in Roanoke since 1980. He is married with three grown children.
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 Mona Sadek, MD, FACOG
Dr. Sadek was fortunate to have parents who valued education highly and gave her every opportunity to pursue a broad-based education with exposure to British and American schooling and travels throughout Europe and the Middle East. After completing a Greek and American elementary school simultaneously, she graduated from a British high school in Cyprus at the age of 16 followed by a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Florida. She graduated with honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. She received a full merit-based scholarship to Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee, was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society as a junior and graduated in 1994. In 1998 she completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Sadek completed her board certification in 2000, is a member of The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Roanoke Valley Academy of Medicine and The Howard Kelly Society at Johns Hopkins. She has been proactive in introducing new technologies to both our office and the Lewis-Gale Medical Center and is on the Electronic Physician Ordering of Medications development committee at the hospital. She is fluent in Greek, Arabic and French and enjoys competitive swimming (previously on the Cypriot National Team), tennis and the outdoors together with her husband and two sons.
Special interests include education and treatment of STDs, high risk obstetrics, advanced laparoscopic techniques and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery.
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From Kittens to Babies: The Long Journey Home
Mona Sadek, MD, FACOG
Growing up in a male-dominated, war-ridden Arab world afforded a young girl exposure to a wealth of contrasting cultural experiences. We look back at events that molded her character and made her the career-driven, opinionated woman she has become today.
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