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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

Quantitative morphometric outcomes following the Melbourne method of total vault remodeling for scaphocephaly.
Authors: Authors: Toma R, Greensmith AL, Meara JG, Da Costa AC, Ellis LA, Willams SK, Holmes AD.
J Craniofac Surg
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Perioperative corticosteroid reduces hospital stay after fronto-orbital advancement.
Authors: Authors: Clune JE, Greene AK, Guo CY, Gao LL, Kim S, Meara JG, Proctor MR, Mulliken JB, Rogers GF.
J Craniofac Surg
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Nasal reconstruction for maxillonasal dysplasia.
Authors: Authors: Holmes AD, Lee SJ, Greensmith A, Heggie A, Meara JG.
J Craniofac Surg
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Autologous cranial particulate bone grafting reduces the frequency of osseous defects after cranial expansion.
Authors: Authors: Gao LL, Rogers GF, Clune JE, Proctor MR, Meara JG, Mulliken JB, Greene AK.
J Craniofac Surg
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Lack of insurance negatively affects trauma mortality in US children.
Authors: Authors: Rosen H, Saleh F, Lipsitz SR, Meara JG, Rogers SO.
J Pediatr Surg
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Cleft palate in Pfeiffer syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Stoler JM, Rosen H, Desai U, Mulliken JB, Meara JG, Rogers GF.
J Craniofac Surg
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Case cancellations on the day of surgery: an investigation in an Australian paediatric hospital.
Authors: Authors: Haana V, Sethuraman K, Stephens L, Rosen H, Meara JG.
ANZ J Surg
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Bridging the gap between public health and surgery: access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Ozgediz D, Dunbar P, Mock C, Cherion M, Rogers SO, Riviello R, Meara JG, Jamison D, Macfarlane SB, Burkle F, McQueen K.
Bull Am Coll Surg
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Management of nevus sebaceous and the risk of Basal cell carcinoma: an 18-year review.
Authors: Authors: Rosen H, Schmidt B, Lam HP, Meara JG, Labow BI.
Pediatr Dermatol
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Phenotypically unusual combined craniosynostoses: presentation and management.
Authors: Authors: Greene AK, Mulliken JB, Proctor MR, Meara JG, Rogers GF.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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