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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

Benign triton tumor: multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment.
Authors: Authors: Thakrar R, Robson CD, Vargas SO, Meara JG, Rahbar R, Smith ER.
Pediatr Dev Pathol
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Editors
Authors: Authors: Meara JG, McClain CD, Mooney DP, Rogers SO
Global Surgery and Anesthesia Manual: Providing Care in Resource-limited Settings
Using time-driven activity-based costing to identify value improvement opportunities in healthcare.
Authors: Authors: Kaplan RS, Witkowski M, Abbott M, Guzman AB, Higgins LD, Meara JG, Padden E, Shah AS, Waters P, Weidemeier M, Wertheimer S, Feeley TW.
J Healthc Manag
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Health and economic benefits of improved injury prevention and trauma care worldwide.
Authors: Authors: Kotagal M, Agarwal-Harding KJ, Mock C, Quansah R, Arreola-Risa C, Meara JG.
PLoS One
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The philtrum in cleft lip: review of anatomy and techniques for construction.
Authors: Authors: Rogers CR, Meara JG, Mulliken JB.
J Craniofac Surg
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Applying surgical apps: Smartphone and tablet apps prove useful in clinical practice.
Authors: Authors: O'Neill KM, Holmer H, Greenberg SL, Meara JG.
Bull Am Coll Surg
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Risk-adjusted hospital outcomes for children's surgery.
Authors: Authors: Saito JM, Chen LE, Hall BL, Kraemer K, Barnhart DC, Byrd C, Cohen ME, Fei C, Heiss KF, Huffman K, Ko CY, Latus M, Meara JG, Oldham KT, Raval MV, Richards KE, Shah RK, Sutton LC, Vinocur CD, Moss RL.
Pediatrics
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Inherent difficulties of measuring the burden of surgical disease in resource-poor settings: reply.
Authors: Authors: Manganiello MD, Hughes CD, Hagander L, Bayne D, Pierre JH, Buckley J, Meara JG.
World J Surg
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Better to light a candle: Arthur Barsky and global plastic surgery.
Authors: Authors: Hughes CD, Barsky E, Hagander L, Barsky AJ, Meara JG.
Ann Plast Surg
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The presentation and management of mandibular tumors in the pediatric population.
Authors: Authors: Benoit MM, Vargas SO, Bhattacharyya N, McGill TA, Robson CD, Ferraro N, Didas AE, Labow BI, Upton J, Taghinia A, Meara JG, Marcus KJ, Mack J, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Rahbar R.
Laryngoscope
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