Julia Haller

Julia A. Haller, M.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College.[1][2] She also holds the William Tasman, M.D. Endowed Chair. at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, where she is Ophthalmologist-in-Chief.[3]

Biography

Haller attended the Bryn Mawr School and Princeton University,[4] She received her medical training at Harvard Medical School, followed by an internship at Johns Hopkins and a fellowship in ocular pathology at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Her residency was at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a retina fellowship at Hopkins. She was appointed the first female Chief Resident at Wilmer in 1986. She subsequently became a member of its faculty, becoming the inaugural Katharine Graham Professor of Ophthalmology in 2002.[5] She also became the first holder of the Robert Bond Welch, M.D. Professorship of Ophthalmology there in 2006.[6]:9–11 At Wilmer, she directed the Retina Fellowship Training Program. She became the Ophthalmologist-in-Chief of Wills Eye Hospital in 2007.

Honors

Her honors[7] include

She is a member of the Board of Governors of the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research[10] and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University[11]

She is Emeritus Director of American Society of Retina Specialists[12] and President-elect of the Retina Society.

References

  1. "Julia A. Haller, MD - Jefferson University Hospitals". Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. "New Ophthalmology Chair". Jefferson Hospital. March 2008.
  3. "Governance and Leadership". Wills Eye. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  4. "Julia A. Haller Gottsch '76 Profile". Princeton.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  5. "Exhibit 99.1 Press release dated December 13, 2005". Sec.gov. 2005-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  6. "Homage to a "Giant" - Robert Bond Welch, M.D., Professorship Pays Tribute to a Lifetime of Accomplishment" (PDF). Sightline. Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Summer 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  7. "BSN: Honors and Awards for Julia A Haller". Biotechsciencenews.com. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  8. "2015 ARVO Fellows". www.arvo.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  9. "J. Donald Gass Medal". www.maculasociety.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  10. "Board of Governors". Arvo.org. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  11. "Current Trustees - Current Trustees - Vice President & Secretary". Princeton.edu. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  12. "Leadership - The American Society of Retina Specialists". Asrs.org. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
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