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 a 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
- ARVO Gold Fellow,[8] Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2015
- J. Donald M. Gass Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Macula Disease, The Macula Society,[9] 2015
- Louis Braille Award, Associated Services for the Blind, 2014
- Heed-Gutman Award, Society of Heed Fellows, 2013
- American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Life Achievement Honor Award, 2011
- AAO Senior Achievement Award
- Vitreous Society Senior Honor Award
- Kreissig Award from EURETINA, 2008
- Gertrude Pyron Award from the Retina Research Foundation and the American Society of Retina Specialists, 2010
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.
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