Pamela C. Cates-Smith, M.D.

Physician Orlando Health Physician Associates

Since 2009, Pamela C. Cates-Smith, M.D., has been a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist at Orlando Health Physician Associates.

She cares for women through all stages of life. She has a special interest in adolescent gynecology, irregular menstrual cycles and higher risk obstetrics. In her career, she has been awarded the Patients Choice Award, Most Compassionate Doctor, Woman of the Year and most notably, Top OB-GYN Physician in Florida in 2018. She was recently featured in “Orlando Style” magazine as one of the Elite Physicians of 2022. She also currently serves as the medical director for The Pregnancy Center.

A graduate of Emerson School for Visual and Performing Arts in Gary, Ind., Dr. Cates-Smith received her bachelor's degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Graduate and medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis followed, where she found her specialty. She completed her residency at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando.

Dr. Cates-Smith, along with her identical twin sister, Dr. Patrice Cates-Lonberger, are co-founders of Grace Girls Foundation, Inc., where their mission is dedicated to promoting and empowering girls to develop self-esteem, self-worth, and self-awareness through character development, community service, leadership and scholarship.

Grace Girls helps young women realize they are leaders with spiritual gifts in every aspect of their lives and remember that “there but for the grace of God go I.”

Her greatest professional and personal achievement is the ability to maintain balance between career and family including her husband and two children, daughter, Giselle and son, Gavin. She enjoys traveling, exercising, liturgical dancing, fine dining and spending time with family.

Dr. Cates-Smith stands on the scripture, Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”