{"id":54118,"date":"2022-08-02T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.womeninoptometry.com\/?p=54118"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:16:39","slug":"picture-perfect-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.womeninoptometry.com\/newsmakers\/outside-interests\/article\/picture-perfect-pair\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture-Perfect Pair"},"content":{"rendered":"
OD couple brings career, faith and love of nature into sharp focus<\/em><\/p>\n Meet Sean and Steph. Sean Cushman, OD,<\/strong> and fianc\u00e9\/OD student, Stephanie Nahhas<\/strong>, met through a combination of their passion for faith and optometry, bonded through their mutual love of nature and hiking and continue to challenge and support each other as a couple and as Instagram content creators.<\/p>\n Although mountain trails are limited in Ohio, the two found ways to explore nature and be socially distanced from others. Their first trip together was to Utah where they hiked through various parks, and the two recently returned to the state to take engagement photos.<\/p>\n THE ROAD TO DOCTOR-HOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Cushman recently completed a year-long residency and fellowship in ocular disease at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida before settling in Salt Lake City, Utah, in a medically focused practice. Nahhas will soon complete one of her rotations there.<\/p>\n DOING MORE GOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Cushman says that he appreciates that practicing optometry lines up so well with his faith and missionary work\u2014in the world and in his community. The two still find time to be involved in their missions and even take faith-based trips once or twice a year. She is helping organize a trip to Guatemala for early August with Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity and is the co-president of the organization. On this trip, the group will work with a clinic in a rural part of the country and provide access to essential eye care, women\u2019s clinics and educational medical seminars to an expected more than 100 patients per day.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been able to help so many underserved communities and be immersed in other cultures,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur love for travel and healthcare coincides,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe love being involved in other cultures, learning from them and helping them when we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
They met in August of 2019 through a Fellowship of Christian Optometrists group at The Ohio State University. She was a first-year student new to the campus and reached out to a fourth-year friend to show her around at church. The friend said they couldn\u2019t make it, but that their buddy\u2014 Sean\u2014 was available to show her around instead. They started dating later that year, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n
The soon-to-be Dr. Nahhas grew up with mentors in medicine who raised her with the motto that it is important to both do good in the world and remember that you need to make time for your own life, too. She found that optometry provided the right balance of health care, an intellectual challenge and good working hours. She shadowed a family friend who was a dry eye specialist and found that there was a huge world within the scope of optometry.<\/p>\n
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