Edgardo R. Rodriguez-Collazo, DPM

Dr. Edgardo Rodriguez-Collazo is a board certified reconstructive podiatric surgeon with more than 25 years of experience, based in Chicago, Illinois, where he serves as Medical Director of the Institute’s Chicago practice. At Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital he is Chief of the Section of Podiatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Associate Program Director of the podiatric surgical residency.

His practice centres on complex deformity correction and microsurgical nerve and limb reconstruction, with a special interest in microsurgical nerve reconstruction, phantom-free amputation, bone infections, congenital deformities, clubfoot and post-traumatic disorders. He is one of only a few surgeons in the country performing phantom pain-free trans-tibial amputation with targeted muscle reinnervation.

Dr. Rodriguez-Collazo is Founder and Chairman of the Chicago Lower Extremity Surgical Foundation (CLESF), Founder and Advisory Board Member of the American Microsurgical & Orthoplastic Society, Director of the CPME Deformity Correction & Microsurgical Limb Reconstruction Fellowship, and a Board Member and Fellow of the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons. Each year he collaborates on pediatric limb reconstruction at Instituto Nacional de Pediatría and Shriners Hospital in Mexico City.