Operation Walk Chicago

05/26/2026

Attention to our wonderful volunteers & supporters over the years! We're celebrating the amazing career and limitless contributions of Dr. David Stulberg this October 9th at our 20th Anniversary Gala. Be sure to watch for more information. See below!

05/24/2026

Here's a brief video to highlight all of our volunteers on our recent trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thank you to every member of our dedicated team!

05/22/2026

The dedication and innovation of the Operation Walk Chicago volunteers can extend beyond the care we offer to our joint replacement patients. Andrew Brander, son of Operation Walk Chicago co-founder Dr. Victoria Brander and Dr. William J Brander, has accompanied our team on multiple recent missions providing valuable tech support. Recently, Andrew joined the IT Department of the Cook County Treasurer's Office in the Chicago area. He quickly applied his expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help develop a new system to eliminate a massive backlog in reimbursement payments to local taxpayers. Thanks in large part to Andrew's efforts, taxpayers are now getting their long-overdue refunds. Here's a news story that just aired on the Chicago ABC station covering this breakthrough. Congratulations, Andrew!

After a year of finger pointing between a private company and Cook County, property owners are finally getting property tax refunds.

05/09/2026

Dr. Kevin Hardt is an orthopedic surgeon and has joined us on several Operation Walk Chicago missions. In this video he describes the first of a number of hip revision procedures that he and our team performed last month during our recent trip to Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

05/07/2026

Two of our most experienced Operation Walk Chicago surgeons, Drs. Lalit Puri & Scott Cordes, offered a brief recap of our most recent trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in April.

05/01/2026

Operation Walk Chicago completed our most recent medical mission to Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City. This was another wonderful trip where we brought about 30 volunteers together to perform more than 40 hip replacement surgeries over five days. Here are a number of images from our patient celebration event on our last day, which was Wednesday, April 15th. Thank you to our dedicated volunteers, our wonderful Vietnamese colleagues and of course, our Vietnamese patients and their family members. Each trip is so special for all of us, and this one was certainly as much as any that we've undertaken in the past 20 years! More images and videos from this trip to come in the days & weeks ahead!

04/15/2026

Sneak preview from the final day and patient parade. Lots more patient photos, videos and interviews to come! Stay tuned.

04/15/2026

Op Walk Chicago physicians gave presentations at Tuesdays medical conference and surgeons made rounds on their patients. More Tuesday and Wednesday photos and videos to come, including the parade of patients walking post-hip replacement!