Since 2012 Dr Chohan has provided specialist medical services to major media organisations including the BBC, which have staff operating in remote environments or regions affected by conflict or catastrophe. This has involved providing clinical risk assessments and medical advice to Media teams deploying with the military to forward operating bases in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as issuing Green Book medical clearance to media personnel to cover these operations on behalf of the MOD’s Defence Media Ops team
Dr Chohan has been interviewed for both print and broadcast media and appeared in articles for the UK’s Guardian newspaper as well as Men’s Health magazine when he was featured in the article that reported on the show, titled ‘Could you compete with the SAS?’. With experiences of working alongside journalists, documentary film makers and media groups in a number of countries, he is always happy to discuss any aspect of his work or research as well as support media professionals deploying to hostile regions.
In 2015 Dr Chohan served as the lead Medical Consultant and on-screen doctor in the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins, in which he supported a highly experienced team of former Tier 1 UK Special Forces operators challenging civilians in a simulation of the ‘Hills Phase’ of UK Special Forces selection. The first series was successfully received upon broadcast in the UK and has been shown in dozens of countries since. In 2016, he continued his role for the second series of SAS: Who Dares Wins which which simulated the ‘Jungle phase’ of selection on a Commando base, deep inside the Ecuadorean region of the Amazon jungle. Further series have been filmed in the desert environment of the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, the high altitude and extreme cold regions of the Chilean Andes and remote Islands in Scotland. The Series has been commended for tackling difficult and taboo issues around mental health including PTSD, Adverse childhood events, sexual violence, suicide, severe anxiety disorders, body dysmorphia and addictions.