Julia A. Haller, MD  is a board-certified, trailblazing retina surgeon-scientist and leader who has innovated translational advances against blindness on many fronts. Dr. Haller was educated at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. After her Halsted internship in surgery at Johns Hopkins, residency in ophthalmology and retina fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, she served as Wilmer’s first female Chief Resident. Recruited to the Hopkins faculty thereafter, Haller directed the retina fellowship, was named to the inaugural Katharine Graham Chair in Ophthalmology, and subsequently to the inaugural Robert Bond Welch, M.D. Professorship. In 2007 she was appointed Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and William Tasman, MD Endowed Chair at Wills Eye Hospital, and Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and William Tasman, MD Endowed Chair, Wills Eye Hospital
• Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

• Fellowship: Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Retina)
• Residency:  Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Medical School:  Harvard Medical School

PROFESSIONAL AND BOARD APPOINTMENTS

• Chair XVI of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis
• Chair, Board of the Society of Heed Fellows
• Chair, Council of the American Ophthalmological Society
• Boards of the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation
• AAO Foundation Board of Advisors
• Past President, Retina Society
• Past President, American Society of Retina Specialists
• Past President,  Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation
• Past President, Board of Trustees of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
• Founding member of Women in Retina

Her editorial board service includes RETINA, Retinal Physician, Retina Times, Ocular Surgery News, Retina Today, and Ophthalmology Times.