- Alport's syndrome
- Angiomyolipoma of the kidney
- Anti GBM disease
- C3 nephropathy
- Fibrillary GN
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Glomerular diseases related cancer
- 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
- Kidney disease in hematologic malignancies
- 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
- Lebanese UniversityMedical School
- Lebanese UniversityResidency
- Staten Island University Hospital (North Site)Residency
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical CenterFellowship
Spoken languages
Reviews
Insurance accepted
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
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
All conditions and treatments
Research
Publications
Shincovich CI, Chewcharat A, Adomi M, McGee EE, Kim R, Pirovano M, Prosek J, Devarakonda SS, Leisring J, Obole E, Tharakan J, Vaishnav A, Klomjit N, Likasitwatanakul P, Andrzejewski C, Hassan S, Abraham AE, O'Hearn L, Garcia Valencia O, McDonald JS, Sheikh MS, Kim BM, Koirala P, Malik AB, Bansal A, McMahon BA, Teruel B, Kala J, Geara A, Tillquist K, Kanduri S, Szalat R, Aijaz A, Mamlouk O, Ziolkowski SL, Caldwell J, Bonilla M, Ismail N, Amarapurkar PD, Franz JK, Balogun RA, Goggins E, Bassil C, Thapa S, Baz R, Shin DS, Zuckerman JE, Kahlon K, Shah Y, Jhaveri KD, Thakur R, Zhang J, Deshpande P, Abramson MH, Syed D, Rajasekaran A, Pujari A, Raval JS, Bosques L, Porterfield FH, Somasundaram EV, Wells SL, Rubman MB, Pérez RS, Peterkin AC, Lima CSNH, Murakami N, Terashita M, Kim EB, Mosaheb K, Hanna PE, Nadeem O, Leaf DE, Chowdhury RB, Stowell SR, Yee AJ, Leung N, Gupta S. Plasma Exchange and Daratumumab for Myeloma Cast Nephropathy. , Am J Hematology: 2026
Heerspink HJL, Jardine MJ, Kohan DE, Lafayette R, Levin A, Liew A, Zhang H, Noronha IL, Mastroianni-Kirsztajn G, Chow S, Choi DE, Lv J, Trimarchi H, Fu P, Guenther S, Yang S, Liu J, Rahalkar S, Lodha A, Dahlke M, Kollins D, Barratt J; ALIGN study group. Atrasentan in patients with IgA nephropathy (ALIGN): final 2·5-year results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. , Lancet: 2026
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, 394(7): 2026,647-657
Abdallah S Geara, Kelly B Chen, Whitney Simmons Patient and Provider Perspectives on the Patient Journey in Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy , Kidney Medicine, 8(3): 2026,101242
Andreia Curto, Victor J Martinez Leon, Abdallah S Geara Daratumumab for Treatment of Refractory Podocytopathy: A Case Report , Kidney Medicine, 8(3): 2026,101253
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., 12(2): 2025,e001742
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, 104(5): 2025,338-342
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, 145(17): 2025,1858-1869
Keith W Hamilton, Elvis Hua, Lauren Dutcher, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Paul Junker, Abigail G Doucette, Danielle Werner, Ethan Z Kannel, Thomas Civitello, Peter Gabriel, Vivek N Ahya, Dina A Jacobs, Alfred Garfall, Keith Pratz, Kathleen O Degnan, Emily A Blumberg, Donna Capozzi, Ethan Craig, Patricia Takach, Aimee S Payne, Abdallah Geara, Helen Koenig, Lawrence Holzman, Pablo Tebas 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, 11(8): 2024,ofae388
Reza Zonozi 1 2, Faten Aqeel 3, Dustin Le 3, Frank B Cortazar 4, Jugal Thaker 5, Maria Jose Zabala Ramirez 6, Sebastian Eduardo Sattui Cortes 7, Rose Mary Attieh, Madeline Chung, David H Bulbin, Aisha Shaikh, Karina Guaman, Julia Ford, Colin Diffie, Ora Gewurz-Singer, Gabriel Sauvage, Anushya Jeyabalan, Abdallah Geara, Isabelle Ayoub, Andrew Bomback, Lara L Khoury, Jason C George, Kenar D Jhaveri, Vimal Kumar Derebail, John L Niles, Duvuru Geetha Real-World Experience With Avacopan in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-Associated Vasculitis , Kidney International Reports, 9(6): 2024,1783-1791