About Me
Fareed Moses Collado, MD, is a Rush interventional cardiologist and structural heart disease specialist. He earned his medical degree at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Rush University Medical Center. He also completed a clinical and research fellowship in interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston before returning to Rush to complete a fellowship in adult congenital heart and structural heart disease.
Collado is board certified in multiple specialties including internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, adult echocardiography, nuclear medicine and cardiac CT. His area of expertise is evaluating and treating heart conditions with minimally invasive approaches. These heart conditions include coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and coronary microvascular dysfunction.
Collado performs coronary angiograms through arteries in the wrist or groin to diagnose coronary artery disease and provide treatment with coronary stents. He uses intravascular imaging, shockwave lithotripsy and other advanced equipment and techniques. For example, he uses a novel procedure called coronary function testing for patients who may have coronary microvascular disease, which causes chronic chest pain in patients who have normal coronary arteries.
As a structural and congenital heart disease specialist, Collado also treats patients with diseased heart valves and congenital abnormalities without open heart surgery. These conditions include aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation and patent foramen ovale(PFO) in patients with history of stroke and atrial septal defects (ASD). He is an expert in minimally invasive procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR); transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) or mitral clip; PFO and ASD closure; and left atrial appendage closure using Watchman and Amulet devices.
Collado believes in a team approach to care for patients. Complex diseases require complex decision-making. Together with a full heart team, he involves his patients in the discussion of their best and safest care plan. His goal is not only to add years to patients’ lives but to add life to their years, ensuring they have the best quality of life possible.
“For me, what is important is not only for them to be alive, but more important is for them to be living,” Collado says. “And when they attend their family events, when they're able to walk around their favorite stores, and when they are able to play with their grandchildren again, we have achieved our mission. This makes it all worth it for us.”
