Julia A. Haller

About Julia A. Haller

The most unpredictable moment in your career?

The most unexpected turn my career took also turned out to be the most serendipitous! I was just out of the operating room after 27 years at Johns Hopkins and Wilmer, when I took a call from the executive recruiter hired by Wills Eye Hospital. That led to my sending in my CV, getting called up to Philadelphia for several rounds of interviews and then – the chance of a lifetime - ending up as Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at Wills! To paraphrase the great Francis Moore, famous surgeon-scientist at the Brigham in Boston, it has been a miracle and a privilege to serve this remarkable and historic hospital, its faculty and its patients.