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John G Meara, D.M.D., M.D.

Boston Children's Hospital Professor of Surgery in the Field of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
617-355-2313

John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA is the Director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, and Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Meara serves as the Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief of the Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital.   He was Co-Chair for the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and was a commissioner on the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era, and the Lancet Oncology Commission.   He currently serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics.  In 2008 he created the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program. He is also interested in value-based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity-based cost research and outcomes research.  Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking. 

Affiliations
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital

Contact Information
Harvard Medical School
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Boston Children's Hospital
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery

Assistant
Marshalee Bowens

Dr. Meara's interests and innovation activities lie in the areas of craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and cleft palate, but he has a particular interest in augmenting the delivery of quality surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource settings through long term capacity building. He is involved in multiple global surgery projects looking at the burden of surgical disease, the surgical capacity and health systems building in low-resource environments, surgical education and the economic impact of untreated surgical disease. He is also interested in value based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity based cost research and outcomes research. Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking. Since 2008, he has directed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program in collaboration with Partners In Health. Its purpose is to strengthen global surgical systems through a combination of research, advocacy, and implementation science as well as train leaders who will further promote surgical care, education, and research pertinent to global surgery.

Research Interests

National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Planning in the Context of Global Surgery: The Way Forward.
Authors: Authors: Sonderman KA, Citron I, Meara JG.
JAMA Surg
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Global surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic task shifting: A systematic literature review.
Authors: Authors: Federspiel F, Mukhopadhyay S, Milsom PJ, Scott JW, Riesel JN, Meara JG.
Surgery
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Collection of Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Standard Set Variables: Establishing a Baseline.
Authors: Authors: Citron I, Ganske I, Massenburg BB, Doyle M, Meara JG, Rogers-Vizena CR.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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Single-stage Total Cranial Vault Remodeling for Correction of Turricephaly: Description of a New Technique.
Authors: Authors: Rottgers SA, Ganske I, Citron I, Proctor M, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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Modification of the Melbourne Method for Total Calvarial Vault Remodeling.
Authors: Authors: Hughes CD, Isaac KV, Hwang PF, Ganske I, Proctor MR, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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Cured into Destitution: Catastrophic Health Expenditure Risk Among Uninsured Trauma Patients in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Scott JW, Raykar NP, Rose JA, Tsai TC, Zogg CK, Haider AH, Salim A, Meara JG, Shrime MG.
Ann Surg
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The Economic Consequences Of Mortality Amenable To High-Quality Health Care In Low- And Middle-Income Countries.
Authors: Authors: Alkire BC, Peters AW, Shrime MG, Meara JG.
Health Aff (Millwood)
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Pathology and laboratory medicine in partnership with global surgery: working towards universal health coverage.
Authors: Authors: Citron I, Sonderman K, Meara JG.
Lancet
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The economic consequences of neurosurgical disease in low- and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Rudolfson N, Dewan MC, Park KB, Shrime MG, Meara JG, Alkire BC.
J Neurosurg
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Multi-modal 3D Simulation Makes the Impossible Possible.
Authors: Authors: Ganske IM, Schulz N, Livingston K, Goobie S, Meara JG, Proctor M, Weinstock P.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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