Dr. Constance “Connie” Bohon graduated from George Washington University Medical School where she then did her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She began private practice at Columbia Hospital for Women with an academic affiliation with Georgetown University, rising to Chief of Gynecology at Columbia Hospital for Women. She subsequently has continued to practice at Sibley Memorial Hospital where she serves as an Obstetrical House Officer and holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor at George Washington University.
Dr. Bohon has assumed leadership and advocacy positions throughout her career, serving as Chair of District IV ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Junior Fellows DC Section then Chair of the entire District IV ACOG Junior Fellows. Subsequently she became the Vice-Chair then Chair of the DC Section District IV ACOG Fellows. She has served on multiple national ACOG Committees including the Task Force on Substance Abuse, Committee on Obstetrics: Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Grievance Committee. She served as the Chair of the DC Ob/Gyn Society. She has been the Chair and Co-Chair of the ACOG District IV Legislative Committee. Currently she is the General Chair of the ACOG Scientific Program Committee and the General Chair of the ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting.
She was the Chair of the DC Maternal Mortality Organizing Committee and then has served on the MMRC since its inception. She currently also serves on the DC Perinatal Qualitative Collaborative (PQC). She has been the coordinator for the DC Teen Promise Project since 2014. She helped to create this project which takes medical students from each of the medical schools in DC and pairs them with adolescents in underserved areas of DC to teach them reproductive and sexual health.
She received the ACOG 2021 Pete and Weezie Hollis Community Service award for service to underserved or poorly served patient populations. In 2023 she received the Charles H. Epps, III Community Service Award, given in recognition of outstanding public service to the community for her work on women’s health and maternal health.
Throughout these activities, Dr. Bohon has had a consistent and forceful voice for promoting women’s health, whether through advocating for insurance coverage for pregnancy health care, promoting measures to prevent teen pregnancy, addressing the high rate and disparities in maternal mortality in DC or gaps in abortion training. She has given testimony on many different platforms including the DC City Council and the US Senate. She is committed to improve and promote reproductive health and reproductive freedom for all.
She is the proud mother of Zack who recently became a PhD in biomedical engineering.
