Dr. Hanish is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing. She received her bachelor of science in nursing, master of science in nursing, and PhD in nursing degrees from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Hanish completed a predoctoral fellowship with the National Institute of Nursing Research Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP). Through this program she completed her doctoral coursework at the University of Iowa and transitioned to the intramural programs at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD to complete her dissertation research. Her research was completed in the NIH intramural labs at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) within the Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics (PDEGEN). Her dissertation research focused on the sleep-related phenotype associated with PAX6 haploinsufficiency. The GPP predoctoral fellowship included training in pineal measurement using magnetic resonance imaging, melatonin enzyme-linked immunoabsorbance assays, sleep questionnaires, sleep diaries, actigraphy, and polysomnography. After completing the predoctoral fellowship, she was eager to expand her training from a rare disease population to more common neurodevelopmental disabilities at risk for sleep problems. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) through the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities) postdoctoral program at the Munroe Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation, receiving a certificate in advanced leadership in autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UNMC College of Nursing where she focused on mentored training in behavioral sleep interventions for vulnerable pediatric populations, adaptive interventional designs, and grantsmanship for interdisciplinary clinical translational research.