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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

Odontogenic keratocyst in a young child.
Authors: Authors: Shah SS, Meara JG, Curtin HD, Li KK, Cunningham MJ.
Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol
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Descending necrotizing mediastinitis: a complication of dental implant surgery.
Authors: Authors: Li KK, Varvares MA, Meara JG.
Head Neck
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Odontogenic keratocysts in the pediatric population.
Authors: Authors: Meara JG, Li KK, Shah SS, Cunningham MJ.
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
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Location of the descending palatine artery in relation to the Le Fort I osteotomy.
Authors: Authors: Li KK, Meara JG, Alexander A.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg
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Massive, destructive, dentigerous cyst: A case report.
Authors: Authors: Meara JG, Brown MT, Caradonna D, Varvares MA.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
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Orbital compartment syndrome following orthognathic surgery.
Authors: Authors: Li KK, Meara JG, Rubin PA.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg
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Development of a Novel Global Surgery Course for Medical Schools.
Authors: Authors: Anderson GA, Albutt K, Holmer H, Muguti G, Mbuwayesango B, Muchuweti D, Gidiri MF, Mugapathyay S, Iverson K, Roa L, Sharma S, Jeppson B, Jönsson K, Lantz A, Saluja S, Lin Y, Citron I, Meara JG, Hagander L.
J Surg Educ
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In: Rahbar R, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Meara JG, Smith ER, Perez-Atayde AR Eds
Authors: Authors: Vercler CJ, Virgin FW, Rahbar R, Smith ER, Meara JG
Pediatric Head and Neck Tumors: A-Z Guide to Presentation and Multimodality Management
Pediatric Head and Neck Tumors: A-Z Guide to Presentation and Multimodality Management
Authors: Authors: In: Rahbar R, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Meara JG, Smith ER, Perez-Atayde AR Eds
Pilomatrixoma
Costs of Care
Authors: Authors: Metzler IS, Meara JG
Federal Debt, Student Loans, and the Physician Workforce