John Meara, DMD, MD, MBA, has been named Kletjian Professor of Global Surgeryat Harvard Medical School. Dr. Meara is director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medine; chair of the executive committee of the Harvard Plastic Surgery Training Program; chief of the Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital; director of the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship in collaboration with Partners In Health; and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.