- Alport's syndrome
- Angiomyolipoma of the kidney
- Anti GBM disease
- C3 nephropathy
- Fibrillary GN
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Goodpasture's syndrome
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis associated kidney disease
- Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura related kidney disease
- HUS
- Hypophosphatemia
- IgA Nephropathy
- Infectious GN
- Interstitial nephritis
- Kidney disease and cancer
- Light chain deposition disease
- Lupus nephritis
- Membranoproliferative GN
- Membranous GN
- Microalbuminuria
- Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
- Minimal change disease
- Monoclonal gammopathy
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- Multiple myeloma related kidney disease
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Polyangiitis
- Proteinuria
- Renal amyloidosis
- Thrombocytopenic purpura
- Vasculitis: ANCA
Abdallah Geara, MD
About me
- Clinical Director of the Glomerular Disease Program
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension)
My education and training
- Medical School: Lebanese University
- Residency: Lebanese University
- Residency: Staten Island University Hospital (North Site)
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
Spoken languages
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Nephrology, 2012
- American Society of Nephrology, National
- American Society on Onconephrology, International
- International Society of Glomerular Diseases, International
- International Society of Nephrology, International
- National Kidney Foundation, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Lafayette R, Barbour SJ, Brenner RM, Campbell KN, Doan T, Eren N, Floege J, Jha V, Kim BS, Liew A, Maes B, Pal A, Pecoits-Filho R, Phoon RKS, Rizk DV, Suzuki H, Tesař V, Trimarchi H, Wei X, Zhang H, Barratt J; ORIGIN Phase 3 Trial Investigators. A Phase 3 Trial of Atacicept in Patients with IgA Nephropathy , NEJM: 2026
Curto A, Martinez Leon VJ, Geara AS. Daratumumab for Treatment of Refractory Podocytopathy: A Case Report , Kidney Medicine: 2026
Geara AS, Chen KB, Simmons W. Patient and Provider Perspectives on the Patient Journey in Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy , Kidney Medicine: 2026
Gerber JM, Dehdashtian E, Hu G, Gregoire C, Borie D, Bindal P, Cerny J, Geara A, Schett G, Caricchio R. "Successful autologous CD19 CAR T cell therapy following severe lupus flare during immunosuppressive washout in refractory lupus nephritis" , Lupus Sci Med.: 2025
Ella Eisinger, Abdallah S Geara, Bryan Chang, Preethi Reddivari, Julia Ford, Ora Gewurz-Singer, Duvuru Geetha "Avacopan for ANCA-associated vasculitis: Beyond the 52-week treatment course" , Clinical Nephrology: 2025
Gupta S, Kaunfer SA, Chen KL, Dias JA, Vijayan A, Rajasekaran A, Prosek J, Truong HL, Wood A, Bassil C, Renaghan AD, Shah CV, Zhang J, Glezerman I, Carlos C, Kelly K, Passero CJ, Drappatz J, Abudayyeh A, Shin D, Sperati CJ, Yelvington BJ, Kanduri SR, Neyra JA, Edmonston D, Shirali AC, Bansal A, Geara A, Mithani Z, Ziolkowski SL, Rashidi A, Jakubowski J, Pujari A, Bond DA, Dotson EK, Wall SA, Patton JT, Barreto JN, Hermann SM, Sheikh MS, Baz RC, Lee JH, Lucchesi N, Kolman M, Rasheed MA, Afzal A, Kang D, Mahesh A, Hsu R, Nicolaysen A, Tefera K, Schretlen C, Miller RM, Velez JCQ, Flannery AH, Aklilu AM, Anand S, Chandrasekhara S, Donley V, Patel A, Ni J, Krishnamurthy S, Ali R, Yilmam OA, Wells SL, Ortega JL, Green-Lingren OL, Leaf RK, Sise ME, Nayak L, LaCasce AS, Leung N, Leaf DE. "Glucarpidase for Treatment of High-Dose Methotrexate Toxicity" , Blood: 2025
Keith W Hamilton 1, Elvis Hua 2, Lauren Dutcher 1, Holly Fernandez Lynch 3, Paul Junker 4, Abigail G Doucette 5, Danielle Werner 6, Ethan Z Kannel 7, Thomas Civitello 7, Peter Gabriel 5, Vivek N Ahya 6 8, Dina A Jacobs 9, Alfred Garfall 10, Keith Pratz 10, Kathleen O Degnan 1, Emily A Blumberg 1, Donna Capozzi 11, Ethan Craig 12 13, Patricia Takach 14, Aimee S Payne 15, Abdallah Geara 16, Helen Koenig 1, Lawrence Holzman 16, Pablo Tebas 1 Implementation of an Approach to Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies for Preexposure Prophylaxis: Experience From a Single Medical Center , Open Forum Infectious Disease: 2024
Reza Zonozi, MD, Faten Aqeel, MD, Dustin Le, MD, Frank B. Cortazar, MD, Jugal, Thaker, MD, Maria Jose Zabala Ramirez, MD, Sebastian Eduardo Sattui Cortes, MD, Rose Mary Attieh, MD, Madeline Chung, MD, David H. Bulbin, DO, Aisha Shaikh, MD, Karina Guaman, BA, Julia Ford, MD, Colin Diffie, MD, Ora Gewurz-Singer, MD, Gabriel Sauvage, BS, Anushya Jeyabalan, MD, Abdallah Geara, MD, Isabelle Ayoub, MD, Andrew Bomback, MD, Lara L. Khoury, MD, Jason C. George, DO, Kenar D., Jhaveri, MD, Vimal Kumar Derebail, MD, John L. Niles, MD, Duvuru Geetha, MD "Real-world experience with avacopan in ANCA-associated vasculitis" , Kidney International Reports: 2024
Michelle N Rheault 1, Charles E Alpers 1, Jonathan Barratt 1, Stewart Bieler 1, Pietro Canetta 1, Dong-Wan Chae 1, Gaia Coppock 1, Ulysses Diva 1, Loreto Gesualdo 1, Hiddo J L Heerspink 1, Jula K Inrig 1, Gianna M Kirsztajn 1, Donald Kohan 1, Radko Komers 1, Laura A Kooienga 1, Kenneth Lieberman 1, Alex Mercer 1, Irene L Noronha 1, Vlado Perkovic 1, Jai Radhakrishnan 1, William Rote 1, Brad Rovin 1, Vladimir Tesar 1, Hernán Trimarchi 1, James Tumlin 1, Muh Geot Wong 1, Howard Trachtman 1; DUPRO Steering Committee and DUPLEX Investigators "Sparsentan versus Irbesartan in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis" , NEJM: 2023
Rovin, B, et al "Efficacy and safety of sparsentan versus irbesartan in patients with IgA nephropathy (PROTECT): 2-year results from a randomised, active-controlled, phase 3 trial" , Lancet: 2023