Operation Walk Ireland

Our History

Operation Walk was set up in 1996 by Dr Larry Dorr, Los Angeles, and has expanded to form 15 separate chapters in North America. The next stage in the organisation’s development was to establish an international group, and to this end, Operation Walk Ireland was set up in 2016. 

The Irish team partnered with Operation Walk Chicago in 2016, under the direction of Dr David Stulberg and performed Operation Walk’s first international joint mission in Hanoi, Vietnam. 

Operation Walk Ireland returned to Hanoi in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no mission in 2020, 2021 or 2022 took place. 

In 2019, Operation Walk Ireland carried out the organisation’s first-ever back-to-back mission, where two full teams travelled to Hanoi and carried out surgeries for ten days.