Current Environment:

Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Languages

  • English

Education

Undergraduate School

University of Notre Dame

1986, Notre Dame, IL

Medical School

MD

University of Michigan Medical School

1990, Ann Arbor, MI

Medical School

DMD

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

1993, Philadelphia, PA

Graduate School

MBA

Melbourne Business School

2004, Melbourne, Australia

Internship

General Surgery

University of Michigan

1991, Ann Arbor, MI

Residency

Otolaryngology

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

1997, Boston, MA

Residency

Plastic Surgery

Brigham & Women's Hospital / Boston Children's Hospital

1999, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Craniofacial Surgery

Royal Children's Hospital

2000, Melbourne, Australia

Certifications

  • American Board of Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
  • American Board of Plastic Surgery (General)

Professional History

John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA is the Chair of the Medical Staff Executive Committee and Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital. He is the Founder and Emeritus Director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, commissioner on the Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era, the Lancet Oncology Commission and the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics. In 2008, he created the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program at Harvard Medical School. 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 also led the Cleft ICHOM project, which focused on reporting outcomes and international benchmarking.

Media

Caregiver Profile

Meet Dr. John G. Meara

Apert Syndrome Q&A

Watch Dr. Meara and his colleagues answer questions relative to Apert syndrome.

Bentley - Part One

Part One: Meet Bentley

Bentley - Part Two

Part Two: Rehearsing a tricky operation

Bentley - Part Three

Part Three: Inside the operating room

Bentley - Part Four

Part Four: Bentley returns home

Violet - Part One

Part one - The journey begins

Violet - Part Two

Part two: Meet Violet’s team of doctors

Violet - Part Three

Part three: Inside the Operating Room

Violet - Part Four

Part four: Violet returns home

Publications

I enjoy working with children - they are full of potential and hope. Craniofacial reconstruction repairs congenital and traumatic conditions and restores children and their families with new hope and a better future. Helping children and their families is wonderful in its own right; in addition, the procedures and techniques are also challenging and rewarding. Craniofacial surgery is certainly based on science and technology, but there is an artistic component as well. Patients all have different and complex conditions that require a flexible, problems solving mindset - there is no standard formula. As a result our team is constantly creating and innovating new and better ways to restore and reconstruct and redefine problems and solutions. This requires a multidisciplinary approach - calling on the best from all caregivers in our team.