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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

New global surgical and anaesthesia indicators in the World Development Indicators dataset
Authors: Authors: Raykar NP, Ng-Kamstra JS, Bickler S, Davies J, Greenberg SLM, Hagander L, Johnson W, Leather AJM, McQueen KAK, Mukhopadhyay S, Suzuki E, Weiser T, Shrime MG, Meara JG
BMJ Glob Health
Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to implement and evaluate national surgical planning.
Authors: Authors: Saluja S, Silverstein A, Mukhopadhyay S, Lin Y, Raykar N, Keshavjee S, Samad L, Meara JG.
BMJ Glob Health
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Assessing the Brazilian surgical system with six surgical indicators: a descriptive and modelling study.
Authors: Authors: Massenburg BB, Saluja S, Jenny HE, Raykar NP, Ng-Kamstra J, Guilloux AGA, Scheffer MC, Meara JG, Alonso N, Shrime MG.
BMJ Glob Health
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Collecting data for global surgical indicators: a collaborative approach in the Pacific Region
Authors: Authors: Guest GD, McLeod E, Perry WRG, Tangi V, Pedro J, Ponifasio P, Hedson J, Tudravu J, Pikacha D, Vreede E, Leodoro B, Tapaua N, Kong J, Oten B, Teapa D, Korin S, Wilson L, Mesol S, Tunetti K, Meara JG, Watters DA
BMJ Glob Health
Clinician's Primer to ICD-10-CM Coding for Cleft Lip/Palate Care.
Authors: Authors: Allori AC, Cragan JD, Della Porta GC, Mulliken JB, Meara JG, Bruun R, Shusterman S, Cassell CH, Raynor E, Santiago P, Marcus JR.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J
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Collecting data for global surgical indicators: a collaborative approach in the Pacific Region.
Authors: Authors: Guest GD, McLeod E, Perry WRG, Tangi V, Pedro J, Ponifasio P, Hedson J, Tudravu J, Pikacha D, Vreede E, Leodoro B, Tapaua N, Kong J, Oten B, Teapa D, Korin S, Wilson L, Mesol S, Tuneti K, Meara JG, Watters DA.
BMJ Glob Health
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Understanding and Addressing the Global Need for Orthopaedic Trauma Care.
Authors: Authors: Agarwal-Harding KJ, von Keudell A, Zirkle LG, Meara JG, Dyer GS.
J Bone Joint Surg Am
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A global country-level comparison of the financial burden of surgery.
Authors: Authors: Shrime MG, Dare A, Alkire BC, Meara JG.
Br J Surg
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Barriers to Cleft Lip and Palate Repair Around the World.
Authors: Authors: Massenburg BB, Jenny HE, Saluja S, Meara JG, Shrime MG, Alonso N.
J Craniofac Surg
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Multivariable predictors of substantial blood loss in children undergoing craniosynostosis repair: implications for risk stratification.
Authors: Authors: Meier PM, Zurakowski D, Goobie SM, Proctor MR, Meara JG, Young VJ, Rogers GF, DiNardo JA.
Paediatr Anaesth
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