John G Meara

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 Surgery, Obstetric and Anesthesia Planning
Economic impact of surgical intervention in low-income countries
Cleft lip and palate and craniofacial quality, safety, cost and comparative effectiveness
Time Driven Activity based costing evaluation of pediatric multidisciplinary care delivery

The effect of fronto-orbital advancement on strabismus in children with unicoronal synostosis.

Authors: Authors: Lee SJ, Dondey J, Greensmith A, Holmes AD, Meara JG.
Ann Plast Surg 2008-08-01
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Tumescent steroid infiltration reduces postoperative eye closure after craniofacial surgery.

Authors: Authors: Choi WT, Greensmith AL, Chatdokmaiprai C, Holmes AD, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2008-07-01
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Complete correction of severe scaphocephaly: the Melbourne method of total vault remodeling.

Authors: Authors: Greensmith AL, Holmes AD, Lo P, Maxiner W, Heggie AA, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2008-04-01
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Long-term outcomes of surgical tongue reduction in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

Authors: Authors: Tomlinson JK, Morse SA, Bernard SP, Greensmith AL, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2007-03-01
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Genetic Analysis of Non-syndromic
Craniosynostosis

Authors: Authors: Boyadjiev, SA, Meara JG, Boggan, J, et al
Orthod Craniofacial Res 2007-01-01

Nasal dermoid sinus cysts: a retrospective review and discussion of investigation and management.

Authors: Authors: Blake WE, Chow CW, Holmes AD, Meara JG.
Ann Plast Surg 2006-11-01
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SMS text messaging improves outpatient attendance.

Authors: Authors: Downer SR, Meara JG, Da Costa AC, Sethuraman K.
Aust Health Rev 2006-08-01
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Isolated and syndromic syngnathism: management, implications, and genetics.

Authors: Authors: Tomlinson JK, Liem NT, Savarirayan R, Meara JG.
Ann Plast Surg 2006-08-01
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Intellectual outcomes in children and adolescents with syndromic and nonsyndromic craniosynostosis.

Authors: Authors: Da Costa AC, Walters I, Savarirayan R, Anderson VA, Wrennall JA, Meara JG.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2006-07-01
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Pediatric cervicofacial tissue expansion.

Authors: Authors: Hurvitz KA, Rosen H, Meara JG.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2005-11-01
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