Dr. Diane K Bohn

Dr. Bohn has spent 35 years addressing violence against woman, children and elders as advocate, educator, researcher, author, forensic nurse, clinician, program evaluator and program director. Much of her clinical practice and research have been in Indian Country. She recently retired from clinical practice as a CNM at Cass Lake IHS where she founded and directed their Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, and where she convened and facilitated the CLIHS Trauma Informed Care Workgroup. Dr. Bohn’s research and publications have focused on the prevalence and health effects of lifetime abuse among women and appropriate health care responses. She has presented extensively on these topics as well as on strangulation and development of comprehensive multidisciplinary responses to violence against women in Indian Country. Her most recent publications and presentations have been focused on trauma informed health care and racial disparities in maternal mortality. Dr. Bohn is former President of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, and former Chair of the American College of Nurse Midwives Committee on Violence Against Women. She was awarded the IHS Area Directors Award for Excellence in 2019 and was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives in 2020.