 Physical therapist Cravotta walks with an O.W. patient.
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 Physical therapists Karen Cravotta and Cindy Talley walk with a patient who had her right knee replaced by the Operation Walk surgeons.
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 im works on multiple projects during the first day of surgeries in Managua, Nicaragua.
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 Dr. James Brown takes a break from photography, visiting the Mombacho Volcano in the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua.
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Marcos Dominguez, a senior in journalism and James Brown, executive associate dean of the School of Journalism, last week documented Operation Walk's humanitarian medical mission to Nicaragua. Darrell Bailey, professor in the School of Informatics, and Anna McDaniel, professor in the School of Nursing, also were part of the IUPUI team that joined the medical personnel on this trip. The total Operation Walk staff is about 60 people, which includes surgeons, anethesiologists, operating room nurses and techs, recovery room nurses, floor nurses, physical therapists. Professors Bailey and McDaniel concentrated on data collection and reports from the data while Dominguez and Dean Brown concentrated on media.
A total pf 77 procedures were performed in four days. Operation Walk is a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization with teams in more than a half dozen cities. These teams travel to developing nations to provide free surgical treatment for patients. The patients would not have access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions without this medical mission. Operation Walk also educates other healthcare professionals in the developing countries on the most advanced treatments and surgical techniques for diseases of the hip, knee, foot and ankle joints. For more information and pictures from the trip, go to:
www.operationwalk.org/ and click on the link to Mooresville, Indiana
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