Hanna-Katharina Hausammann was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in Boca Raton, Florida. She returned to Austria to study veterinary medicine, and has since returned to South Florida to practice. After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, she obtained her Magistra medicinae veterinaeriae (M.V.M.) from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. Her special interests include internal medicine, exotic animal medicine and oncology. She shares her home with two Australian Shepherds named Finn and Oakley, two cats named Lily and Lucy, and two horses named Luna and Ponita.