Dr. Anne M Hanneken was born in Wisconsin and attended Marquette University as a chemistry major. During college, she was best known for playing competitive tennis on the Men’s Intercollegiate Tennis Team and simultaneously starting the Women’s Athletic Program. Subsequently, she attended The Medical College of Wisconsin and was awarded a research internship to study at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Judah Folkman, whose research in angiogenesis revolutionized the treatment of macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Dr. Hanneken attended the world-renown Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital for her Ophthalmology residency and completed a two-year fellowship with the father of vitreoretinal surgery.