Media Coverage

  • RF doctor brings joint surgeries to the global poor

    April 18, 2023

    Dr. Victoria Brander has dedicated much of her medical career to transforming the lives of individuals in developing countries who suffer from advanced joint disease. Co-founder of Operation Walk Chicago…

  • Bệnh viện Quân Y 175 cùng bác sĩ nước ngoài thay khớp háng cho bệnh nhân nghèo | VietNamNet

    May 28, 2019

    Có khoảng 50 bệnh nhân nghèo mắc các bệnh lý khớp háng, khớp gối được phẫu thuật miễn phí dưới ê-kíp bác sĩ quân đội và chuyên gia y tế đến từ nước ngoài.

  • ‘Selfish Joy’ Motivates Local Doctor’s Humanitarian Work | WTTW Chicago

    February 10, 2017

    Dr. Victoria Brander was giddy after returning from a recent trip to Brazil.

    The trip wasn’t a vacation. Brander, along with more than 50 clinicians, spent two weeks in Recife, Brazil, performing nearly 50 hip replacement surgeries as part of a medical humanitarian mission through Operation Walk Chicago.

  • Projeto norte-americano muda vida de pessoas com pouca mobilidade | Diario de Pernambuco Busca

    January 25, 2017

    Cerca de 40 pernambucanos com dificuldades de mobilidade voltarão a andar. Não é um milagre bíblico, mas sim um esforço de cooperação, sensibilidade e caridade cuja iniciativa partiu de empreendedores locais que se articularam com a Secretária Estadual de Saúde e possibilitaram a vinda da missão Operation Walk Chicago ao estado. A organização norte-americana chega pela primeira vez ao Brasil e aporta no Hospital Dom Helder Câmara trazendo 53 médicos voluntários para um mutirão de cirurgias de artroplastia de quadril.

  • Mutirão da Operation Walk Chicago realizará cirurgias gratuitas no Hospital Dom Helder Camara | Blogs NE10

    January 19, 2017

    Operation Walk Chicago é uma organização internacional que presta serviços voluntários no tratamento para pacientes com necessidade de reposição articular em países em desenvolvimento (Foto: operationwalkchicago.com)

  • Global health reflections from Kathmandu, Nepal | Baylor College of Medicine

    November 2, 2016

    After the lights went out for the third time as we ate dinner, Dr. Anil Ghimire, calmly shrugged as he said, “This is Nepal, my friend. And this is why we have two back-up generators for the hospital.”

  • River Forest doctor leads team assisting Nepal earthquake victims | Chicago Tribune

    May 13, 2015

    When NorthShore Orthopedic physician Dr. Victoria Brander and her colleague Dr. David Stulberg founded Operation Walk Chicago in 2005, they had no idea how much the organization would be needed when crises hit.

  • Walk-off victories | Chicago Tribune

    September 21, 2012

    Local team repairing joints for free helps abused, crippled Nepalese victim of human trafficking back to her feet; case shines a light on plight of slaves worldwide

  • Operation Walk | WTTW Chicago Tonight

    March 23, 2011

    A local group of physicians, who volunteer their time to do free joint replacement surgeries in poor countries around the world, have now brought the program home to Chicago. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

  • Operation Walk Chicago helps needy afford restorative procedures | Chicago Tribune

    August 2, 2011

    Chicago surgeons try to fill gap in joint replacements.

  • Operation Walk | Lt. Governor Pat Quinn - Standing Up for Illinois

    August 2007

    On Thursday, August 23, 2007, Lt. Governor Pat Quinn will join with a volunteer medical team from Illinois that will be traveling to Ecuador in November on a medical mission to perform 45 knee replacements on impoverished patients who otherwise could not afford joint replacement surgery.

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    March 25, 2008

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    December 24, 2007

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    March 20, 2006

  • Chicago Surgeons to Perform Over 80 Surgeries in China | Press Release

    August 9, 2006

    Northwestern Physicians to bring life-changing hip and knee replacements to the disabled

  • Operation Walk at West China Hospital of Sichuan University

    October 12, 2006

  • China News Article

    November 9, 2006

  • Northwestern Physicians to bring life-changing hip and knee replacements to Central China | Press Release

    2005

    60 Joint Replacements in one Grueling and Inspiring week

  • Arthritis Sufferers in China to Get Western Help | Northwestern University

    May 2005

  • China News Article

    August 14, 2005

Media Coverage

  • Mutirão opera joelhos de 34 pacientes do SUS | Folha PE

    November 22, 2019

    Especialistas trataram artroplastia substituindo as articulações por prótese, permitindo que os cirurgiados possam voltar a andar

  • Bệnh viện Quân Y 175 cùng bác sĩ nước ngoài thay khớp háng cho bệnh nhân nghèo | VietNamNet

    May 28, 2019

    Có khoảng 50 bệnh nhân nghèo mắc các bệnh lý khớp háng, khớp gối được phẫu thuật miễn phí dưới ê-kíp bác sĩ quân đội và chuyên gia y tế đến từ nước ngoài.

  • ‘Selfish Joy’ Motivates Local Doctor’s Humanitarian Work | WTTW Chicago

    February 10, 2017

    Dr. Victoria Brander was giddy after returning from a recent trip to Brazil.

    The trip wasn’t a vacation. Brander, along with more than 50 clinicians, spent two weeks in Recife, Brazil, performing nearly 50 hip replacement surgeries as part of a medical humanitarian mission through Operation Walk Chicago.

  • Projeto norte-americano muda vida de pessoas com pouca mobilidade | Diario de Pernambuco Busca

    January 25, 2017

    Cerca de 40 pernambucanos com dificuldades de mobilidade voltarão a andar. Não é um milagre bíblico, mas sim um esforço de cooperação, sensibilidade e caridade cuja iniciativa partiu de empreendedores locais que se articularam com a Secretária Estadual de Saúde e possibilitaram a vinda da missão Operation Walk Chicago ao estado. A organização norte-americana chega pela primeira vez ao Brasil e aporta no Hospital Dom Helder Câmara trazendo 53 médicos voluntários para um mutirão de cirurgias de artroplastia de quadril.

  • Mutirão da Operation Walk Chicago realizará cirurgias gratuitas no Hospital Dom Helder Camara | Blogs NE10

    January 19, 2017

    Operation Walk Chicago é uma organização internacional que presta serviços voluntários no tratamento para pacientes com necessidade de reposição articular em países em desenvolvimento (Foto: operationwalkchicago.com)

  • Global health reflections from Kathmandu, Nepal | Baylor College of Medicine

    November 2, 2016

    After the lights went out for the third time as we ate dinner, Dr. Anil Ghimire, calmly shrugged as he said, “This is Nepal, my friend. And this is why we have two back-up generators for the hospital.”

  • River Forest doctor leads team assisting Nepal earthquake victims | Chicago Tribune

    May 13, 2015

    When NorthShore Orthopedic physician Dr. Victoria Brander and her colleague Dr. David Stulberg founded Operation Walk Chicago in 2005, they had no idea how much the organization would be needed when crises hit.

  • Walk-off victories | Chicago Tribune

    September 21, 2012

    Local team repairing joints for free helps abused, crippled Nepalese victim of human trafficking back to her feet; case shines a light on plight of slaves worldwide

  • Operation Walk | WTTW Chicago Tonight

    March 23, 2011

    A local group of physicians, who volunteer their time to do free joint replacement surgeries in poor countries around the world, have now brought the program home to Chicago. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

  • Operation Walk Chicago helps needy afford restorative procedures | Chicago Tribune

    August 2, 2011

    Chicago surgeons try to fill gap in joint replacements.

  • Operation Walk | Lt. Governor Pat Quinn - Standing Up for Illinois

    August 2007

    On Thursday, August 23, 2007, Lt. Governor Pat Quinn will join with a volunteer medical team from Illinois that will be traveling to Ecuador in November on a medical mission to perform 45 knee replacements on impoverished patients who otherwise could not afford joint replacement surgery.

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    March 25, 2008

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    December 24, 2007

  • Ecuadorian Volunteers Association Newsletter

    March 20, 2006

  • Chicago Surgeons to Perform Over 80 Surgeries in China | Press Release

    August 9, 2006

    Northwestern Physicians to bring life-changing hip and knee replacements to the disabled

  • Operation Walk at West China Hospital of Sichuan University

    October 12, 2006

  • China News Article

    November 9, 2006

  • Northwestern Physicians to bring life-changing hip and knee replacements to Central China | Press Release

    2005

    60 Joint Replacements in one Grueling and Inspiring week

  • Arthritis Sufferers in China to Get Western Help | Northwestern University

    May 2005

  • China News Article

    August 14, 2005