Professor Brig (r) Dr Arshad Chohan ڈاکٹر بريگيڈير ارشد چوھان

Professor Brig (r) Dr Arshad Chohan ڈاکٹر بريگيڈير ارشد چوھان graduated in 1982 from Nishtar Medical college Multan which is one of the prestigious medical institution of Pakistan. After doing one year housejob in general surgery he joined Pak Army.He did MCPS (ENT) in 1993 and FICS and FCPS (ENT) in 1996. He got the chance of serving in Air Force and Navy also. While in uniform he has been on following important appointments.

  • Classified ENT Specialist  PAF Hospital Sargodha
  • Classified ENT Specialist Combined Military Hospital Multan
  • Head of Department of  ENT Combined Military Hospital Peshawar
  • Associate Professor ENT Army Medical College Rawalpindi
  • Classified ENT Consultant Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi
  • Professor  Bahria University Medical & dental College Karachi
  • Surgeon Commodore, Head of Department of ENT PNS Shifa Hospital Karachi

Brigadier (R) Dr Arshad Chohan got retirement from Defense Forces in 2012. Now he is working as Professor of ENT & Head and Neck surgery in YMDC Islamabad. and  practicing  in Rawalpindi / Islamabad.

Specialist Medical Skills

Consultant & Surgeon

Specialist Skills Otology

  • Hundreds of  major middle ear operations perforned
  • Published “hearing results after      Mastoidectomy”

Endoscopy

  • Skilled use of rigid and fibrotic endoscopes for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
  • Microlaryngsocopic procedures
  • Bronchoscopies for removal of foreign bodies of airway

Rhinology

(Including endoscopic surgery and cosmetic rhinoplasty)

  • Several thousand routine nasal procedures
  • Lateral rhinotomy, fronto-ethmoidectomy,
  • Partial and total maxilectomy, and radical frontal
  •  sinus obliteration with osteoplastic flap successfully performed
  • Cosmetic and functional rhinoplasty regularly performed
  • Published “ Epistaxis: An Experience with over 100 cases”

LASER surgery

  • CO2 laser regularly used since 2008

Head & Neck Surgery

  • Diagnostic procedures including laryngoscopy, pharyngo-oesophagoscopy, biopsies, fine needle aspirations regularly performed
  • Surgery for tumors of tongue, oral cavity, larynx, pharynx, oesophagus and all types of neck dissections regularly performed since 1995
  • Surgery for laryngeal and tracheal stenosis, Zankers diverticulum, parotidectomy, submandibular gland, branchial cyst, thyroglossal cyst excisions regularly performed with good results

Teaching & training skills

Practical scientific & medical teaching since 1983

Supervisor Postgraduate training CPSP

  • Since 2002  supervised number of postgraduate trainees in Combined Military Hospitals
  • Peshawar
  • Multan
  • Rawalpindi
  • PNS Shifa Karachi

Examiner

  • Examiner of National University of Science and Technology Islamabad
  • Examiner of Armed Forces Postgraduate Medical Institute Rawalpindi
  • Examiner (observer) of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Reviewer

  • Reviewer of Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal

Research Work and Publications

  • Hearing Results of Mastoidectomy.  2nd Author. Pak Armed Forces Med Journal. 1998;48(1): 31-3
  • Sensitivity and Spectrum of Bacterial Isolates in Infectious Otitis Externa. 1st Author. Journal of College of Physians and Surgeons Pakistan. 2004; Vol 14(03) 146-149
  • Total Inferior Turbinectomy for Hypertrophied Inferior turbinates:  2nd Author. Operative Results in 135 Patients. Pak Armed Forces Med Journal. 2005; 3(9)
  • Microbiology of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media- Experience at Bahawalpur. 3rd Author. Pak Armed Forces Med Journal. 2008; 4(12)
  • Epistaxis: An Experience with over 100 cases, 1st Author. RMJ; 2007; 32(2): 142-145
  • Leech in the Hypopharynx: An Unusual Cause of Bleeding from Throat. 3rd Author. Biomedica Vol 20 (Jul-Dec 2004)
  • Leech Infestation in Oropharynx. 3rd Author. Pak J Pathol 2006, 17(1)42-44

Workshops , Seminars  and conferences attended

  • Education Planning & Evaluation   Oct 97 CPSP Karachi
  • Quality Assurance & Standard Setting in Postgraduate Medical Education   Oct 99
  • Research Methodology, Biostatistics & Medical Writing   May 03-5, 2003, Peshawar
  • Primary Surgical Skills. 2003 Peshawar
  • Written Assessment Techniques     Sep 03-5, 2003, Peshawar
  • Nuclear & Biological warfare   2004 Peshawar
  • 19th National Conference of Otorhinolaryngology Peshawar   Nov 2007
  • 22nd national Conference of Otorhinolaryngology Faisalabad  Nov 26-28 2010
  • Weekly Multi specialty Head &Neck Cancer Conferences  CMH Rawalpindi