Dr. Sarah Hamauei attended LSU in Baton Rouge where she received degrees in Psychology and Microbiology.  She attended LSUHSC School of Medicine in Shreveport, and subsequently completed her residency in Family Medicine in 2009.  She began treating addiction in 2010 and became boarded in Addiction Medicine 2015.  She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and the newest board, the American Board of Preventive Medicine which now holds the ABMS-recognized Addiction Medicine subspecialty.