"Dr. Clay Rowe is a native of Gadsden and comes from a family of physicians. Dr. Rowe attended Vanderbilt University and received his medical degree from UAB. Dr. Rowe completed a family practice residency at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham. He earned the title of fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Rowe returned home to Etowah County in 1988 to practice medicine following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Stephen W. Rowe, and his grandfather, Dr. Mercer Rowe."