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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

Surgeons, other providers take the lead on integrating health care services.
Authors: Authors: Abbott MM, Nguyen V, Meara JG.
Bull Am Coll Surg
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Emergency surgical care delivery in post-earthquake Haiti: Partners in Health and Zanmi Lasante experience.
Authors: Authors: McIntyre T, Hughes CD, Pauyo T, Sullivan SR, Rogers SO, Raymonville M, Meara JG.
World J Surg
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The value proposition: using a cost improvement map to improve value for patients with nonsyndromic, isolated cleft palate.
Authors: Authors: Abbott MM, Alkire BC, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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Efficacy of tranexamic acid in pediatric craniosynostosis surgery: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Goobie SM, Meier PM, Pereira LM, McGowan FX, Prescilla RP, Scharp LA, Rogers GF, Proctor MR, Meara JG, Soriano SG, Zurakowski D, Sethna NF.
Anesthesiology
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A microcosting approach for isolated, unilateral cleft lip care in the first year of life.
Authors: Authors: Abbott MM, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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Reconstruction of frontoethmoidal encephalocele defects.
Authors: Authors: Andrews BT, Meara JG.
Atlas Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am
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Audiologic findings in Pfeiffer syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Desai U, Rosen H, Mulliken JB, Gopen Q, Meara JG, Rogers GF.
J Craniofac Surg
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Value-based cleft lip-cleft palate care: a progress report.
Authors: Authors: Abbott MM, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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Plastic surgery and global health: how plastic surgery impacts the global burden of surgical disease.
Authors: Authors: Semer NB, Sullivan SR, Meara JG.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg
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Essential surgery: Integral to the right to health.
Authors: Authors: McQueen KA, Ozgediz D, Riviello R, Hsia RY, Jayaraman S, Sullivan SR, Meara JG.
Health Hum Rights
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