CONTACT
Address: 381 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 1514
Torrance, CA 90501
Phone: (424) 558-8076
Email: alejandra@operationwalk.org, jeri@operationwalk.org
Website: operationwalk.org
Twitter: @OPWalkLA
Instagram: @operationwalkla
Facebook Page: @OperationWalk
Top Executive: Dr. Lawrence D. Dorr Founder of Operation Walk
Year Established: 1996
SERVICE AREA
Los Angeles (founding chapter)
Nationally and internationally
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lawrence D. Dorr, MD
Chairman Retired Orthopedic Surgeon
Edwin Woodsome, President Managing Partner, Dechert LLP
Paul Gilbert, MD
Co-Medical Director Orthopedic Surgeon, Verdugo Hills Hospital
William Long, MD
Co-Medical Director Orthopedic Surgeon, Cedars Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
Jeri Ward, RN
Executive Director Retired Registered Nurse
Marilyn Dorr
CFO
Terre Osterkamp, MD
Secretary Retired Ob-Gyn
David Hotchkin
President Anchor Pacifica Group
Jill Baffert
Board Member
Bob Goodwin
President RPG Consulting, LLC
Mary Ellen Sieben, RN
Registered Nurse Keck Medicine of USC
Jonathan Cohen, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon San Joaquin General Hospital
Richard Jones, MD
Professor of Orthopedics UT Southwestern Medical Center
John Callaghan, MD
Professor of Orthopedics University of Iowa
Gordon L. Penharlow
President Pacific Multitech, Inc.
Lisa Fujimoto-Yamaguchi, PA
Physician’s Assistant Keck Medicine of USC
Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD
Vice Chairman Orthopedic Surgery, UC San Diego
Aren Arakelyan
Manager Advanced Analytics, AT&T
John Kumar, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon Kaiser Hospital
Mission Statement
Operation Walk Los Angeles is a non-profit volunteer medical organization that provides free surgical treatment for patients in developing countries and in the United States without access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions.
Get Involved
EVENTS
Annual Fundraiser in the Fall each year
DONATE
VOLUNTEER
operationwalk.org/become-a-volunteer
OTHER WAYS TO GIVE
Giving Tuesday (each December 1 via Facebook). We hold occasional raffles and accept gently used canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.
About Us
Operation Walk sends medical teams around the world to give people the gift of mobility. We perform free hip and knee replacements that allow people to walk easily again, hold jobs, care for their families and move from dependent, outcast status into life. Operation Walk is a miracle that drops from the sky for these impoverished patients, who could never receive this care otherwise. We have operated on 17,000 people in 25 countries, and on 3,000 in the U.S.
Los Angeles is the flagship among 20 Operation Walk teams from the U.S. and five outside the country. Each volunteer healthcare worker on our 50-member teams gives unconditionally. It is challenging, heart-opening work.
Donations make this possible, and Operation Walk devotes 95% of the money it receives to patient care. We appreciate everyone who supports us and are grateful for our OpWalk Angels. Thanks to you, we make miracles happen.