Dr. Annette Giangiacomo obtained her Bachelors of Arts from Grinnell College and completed medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She completed her Transitional Year at St. Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee, and then trained in Ophthalmology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She then completed a fellowship in glaucoma at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.

Before returning to the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Giangiacomo was on faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology at Emory University for over 10 years where she specialized in caring for adult and pediatric patients with glaucoma. Dr. Giangiacomo has a strong interest global health and has been fortunate to travel to several countries to teach glaucoma surgery.