Dr. Jan Hahn was born in 1951 in Massachusetts and raised in Vineland, N.J. After graduating Swarthmore College, he entered Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Upon completing a family practice residency program in Galveston, Texas, he joined the Indian Health Service and worked for four years at Cherokee IHS Hospital in Cherokee, N.C. In 1984, he moved to Lenoir City, TN. where he practiced family medicine until his retirement July 2012.

In 2009, he returned to college to study English, and in 2011, he enrolled in Lincoln Memorial University's post-bac teacher licensure program. He taught at Farragut HS from 2013-2016.

He returned to medicine in 2017 and is currently practicing in a small rural family medicine office in Madisonville, TN. He continues to teach as an adjunct instructor at South College's Physicians Asst program.

In 1991, he started a domestic violence program, Crisis Center for Women-IVAS, and was its chairman of the board until 2017 when he joined IVAS to the Child Advocacy Center -9th Judicial District.

Albert and the Milk Pail is a child's tale about an adventurous little frog who gets into a lot of trouble. He is also author of two other books: Voices, a collection of poems describing many of the patients he has cared for during his forty-three-year career in medicine, and A Gallimaufry: Conversation, Observations and Commentary also published by Parson’s Porch Books.

Dr. Hahn lives with his wife, Dr. Heather O'Brien, a veterinarian, and their four horses, six dogs, thirty chickens, six dogs, one cat and thirteen goats. . His three daughters, Micah, Avital, and Mara are scattered from New Orleans to Louisville, Ky to Anchorage, Alaska pursuing their respective careers.

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