Celgene Names Julia A. Haller To Board
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Executive Summary
Celgene Corp. has appointed Julia A. Haller to its board of directors. Haller is ophthalmologist-in-chief of the Wills Eye Hospital and holds the William Tasman, M.D. endowed chair. She is also professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and is co-director of the Wills Vision Research Center at Jefferson. Previously Haller was the first female chief resident at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins and later joined its faculty. She was named the inaugural Katharine Graham professor ophthalmology in 2002 and the inaugural Robert Bond Welch, M.D. professor of ophthalmology in 2006.