Media Coverage
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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…
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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)
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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Operation Walk Chicago helps needy afford restorative procedures | Chicago Tribune
August 2, 2011
Chicago surgeons try to fill gap in joint replacements.
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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.
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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
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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
Media Coverage
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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
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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)
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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Operation Walk Chicago helps needy afford restorative procedures | Chicago Tribune
August 2, 2011
Chicago surgeons try to fill gap in joint replacements.
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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.
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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
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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