Dr. Hannah Sahawneh

Industry Start

2018

Education

Iowa State University of Science

Technology and University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry

Bio

Dr. Hannah Sahawneh and her three siblings grew up on a small horse ranch in Iowa. She attended Iowa State University of Science and Technology, where she received receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Public Health. There, she worked for the Iowa State football team and, to this day, enjoys college athletics.

She later attended the University of Alabama School of Optometry in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Sahawneh was very active in the American Optometric Student Association and worked her way up to the local American Optometric Student Association president, as well as serving as the University of Alabama School of Optometry student body president. In 2017, Dr. Sahawneh was selected by the Onesight Foundation to travel to Tanzania for a mission trip in order to provide eye care and materials to several hundred patients. She also attended national and local congressional conferences. and She also maintained leadership roles within student associations, leading to her being awarded the American Optometric Student Association’s first National Student of the Year in 2018. 

Additionally, she was awarded the Jess Boyd Eskridge Clinical Excellence Award from the University of Alabama School of Optometry. She currently serves on the board of the West Florida Optometric Association. Dr. Sahawneh completed general and ocular disease training at the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hospital, has worked at multiple private practices and has been trained in advanced contact lenses.

She completed higher-level residency training in Ocular Disease at the Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico, serving the Navajo Nation. There, she treated and co-managed an extensive amount of ocular disease, trauma, diabetes, glaucoma and anterior segment. She regularly performed specialty and medical contact lens fittings, and routine contact lens fittings. She manages many pediatric diseases, including amblyopia and strabismus, and she has a special love for pediatric patients and their families. Additionally, She is also certified in ophthalmic lasers, injections and minor surgical procedures.