Author Archives 
Dr. Meara is Kletjian Professor of Global Surgery, and director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; chair, department of plastic and oral surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; and co-chair, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.
Posts by John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, FACS:
- Blockchain technology in health care: A primer for surgeons
- Acute care surgery’s role in expanding the surgical workforce in Latin America
- The opioid epidemic: What can surgeons do about it?
- Latin America Indicator Research Coalition examines prehospital care using a trauma systems application of LCoGS indicator 1
- Implementing World Health Assembly Resolution 68.15: National surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia strategic plan development—the Zambian experience
- Using global surgical indicators to improve trauma care in Latin America
- Progress in achieving universal access to surgical care: An update and a path forward
- Meaningful use: A program in transition
- Global Surgery 2030: An introduction
- The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery makes progress in first year of work: An update
- New resources from the College offer alternative approaches to medical liability reform
- Dual eligible beneficiaries: Roles for surgeons under health care reform
- Medicaid expansion likely to affect the delivery of surgical care
- Medicare reform: A look at the House Ways and Means proposal
- Merging Medicare Parts A and B: Potential effects on beneficiaries, surgeons, and other stakeholders
- Applying surgical apps: Smartphone and tablet apps prove useful in clinical practice
- Insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act: How will they affect surgical care?
- New approaches to liability reform: An introduction
- AHRQ program promotes patient safety and liability reform
- The critical state of graduate medical education funding
