GEORGE BOHIGAN (Jun 1957)

Dr. George Bohigian attended Mullanphy Elementary School where he developed a love of the outdoors. He graduated from Roosevelt in June 1957 where his favorite subjects were Latin, math and chemistry.  He then attended Washington University earning an undergraduate degree in secondary social sciences with a teaching certificate, in 1961.  Through a YMCA program, George was then a foreign exchange student in Russia for a year.  He received an M.D. from St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1965.  He did his residency in ophthalmology at Barnes Hospital/Washington University.

From 1970 until 1972, George was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, serving as assistant chief of ophthalmology.  He is a professor of clinical ophthalmology at Washington University School of Medicine and maintains a private practices in Des Peres and Arnold, Missouri.

George has been involved in many medical missions around the world, including Uganda, Central America, Armenia, and the Philippines.  He has been working with the Armenian Eye Care Project since 1995 and the Orbis International Flying Eye Hospital since 1999.  In conjunction with his volunteer work with the Flying Eye Hospital, he flies to hospitals in third-world countries where he teaches doctors and nurses how to treat patients with eye diseases.  George once performed a surgical procedure on five and six year old siblings, both of whom were blind, in the Orbis airplane in the Philippines.  The surgery was successful, allowing both children to see. He has performed other surgeries on young children with successful results.

George has been selected numerous times as one of the best doctors in America and has been named as one of the top “Doctors in St. Louis” in the St. Louis Magazine from 1996 to the present.  He was president of the St. Louis Medical Society in 1979.  He has authored several books, and his writings have been included in over fifty-three publications.

George is married and has two children and three grandchildren.