Dr. Mark Hennen Receives Distinguished Optometrist of the Year Award from the Minnesota Optometric Association

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota --- Dr. Mark Hennen was awarded the Dr. Louis A. Allgeyer Distinguished Optometrist of the Year Award by the Minnesota Optometric Association (MOA) at its Annual Meeting Awards Banquet recently in Minneapolis. Dr. Hennen has been in his current practice at Dakota Eye Care Associates, West St. Paul, since 1998.

The MOA Distinguished Optometrist of the Year Award is presented to an outstanding optometrist who has shown great involvement in the optometric community over the years as well as in his or her local community. Dr. Hennen is a previous MOA Optometrist of the Year award winner, and past MOA president. He has recently completed 22 years on the American Optometric Association (AOA) Healthcare Access Committee. He has completed numerous advanced professional trainings and remains active in various optometric organizations.

Dr. Hennen also remains active in his community, where he has served on the St. Joseph’s School Board and has coached girls and boys basketball. He has participated in two mission trips to Vietnam as a Project Health Volunteer. He also finds time to enjoy fishing, golfing and leisure traveling.

A native of Belle Plaine, Minnesota, Dr. Hennen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and earned a Doctor of Optometry degree at Illinois College of Optometry.

The Minnesota Optometric Association has more than 400 member doctors of optometry around the state. The MOA is committed to furthering awareness of optometrists as primary eye care or family eye doctors and to bringing about change that positively impacts the MOA member doctors and their patients. For more information on the MOA, visit www.minnesotaoptometrists.org.