Alfred L. Garfall, MD, MS

Hematology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 4th Floor West
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About me

  • Director, Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Section Chief, Myeloma, Hematology-Oncology
  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Medical School: New York University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Reviews

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Anonymous
April 2026
good service
Anonymous
April 2026
always thorough and helpful
Anonymous
April 2026
dr garfall cares about his patients
Anonymous
April 2026
so thorough honest and compassionate.

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Garfall is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Bhoj VG, Kaminski M, Zhao H, Jackson K, Wang W, Liu C, Montgomery RA, Ali N, Mangiola M, Spitzer TR, Safa K, Pattanayak V, Taj R, Chiu J, Bui TM, Sonnenberg EM, Markmann JF, Milone MC, June CH, Siegel DL, Fraietta JA, Gonzalez V, Locci M, Palmer M, Monos D, Hwang WT, Sledge T, Bridges ND, Goldstein JS, Odim J, Sweet SC, Besharatian BD, Hussain SM, Brown NK, Kamoun M, Garfall AL, Naji A. Kidney Transplantation in Two Highly Sensitized Candidates after CAR T-Cell Therapy , N Engl J Med, 394: 2026,2117-2125


Ho M, Paruzzo L, Noll JH, Stella F, Devi P, Ndeupen S, Day YA, Chen GM, Cohen IJ, Ramirez-Fernandez A, Waxman A, Kapur S, Chen F, Xu R, Huff A, Jarocha D, Patel V, Bochi-Layec AC, Ramasubramanian R, Liu S, Bouvier R, de Souza VB, Patel H, Li Z, Carturan A, Michener P, Hopkins CR, Koucky O, Minehart J, Dimitri A, Nabar NR, Hasanali ZS, Ciccarelli BT, Hung P, Williams E, Bartoszek R, Lavorando M, Mohan S, Gonzalez VE, Porazzi P, Bhoj VG, Apostolidis SA, Vogl DT, Porter DL, Scholler J, Diorio C, Roche AM, Everett JK, Bushman FD, Nathanson KL, Stadtmauer EA, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Garfall AL, Ruella M, Cohen AD, Fraietta JA. CD4(+) T cells mediate CAR-T cell-associated immune-related adverse events after BCMA CAR-T cell therapy , Nat Med: 2026


Razzo BM, Midha S, Portuguese AJ, Grajales-Cruz AF, De Menezes Silva Corraes A, Costello P, Liu Y, Sperling AS, Nadeem O, Dima D, Banerjee R, Cowan AJ, Afrough A, Anderson LD, Lieberman-Cribbin A, Kaur G, Goyal A, Atrash S, Ferreri CJ, Voorhees PM, Pasvolsky O, Lee HC, Patel KK, Julian KL, Forsberg PA, Herr MM, Chhabra S, Parrondo RD, Lin Y, Chen A, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Khouri J, Raza S, Anwer F, Vazquez-Martinez M, Castaneda Puglianini O, Sborov DW, Davis JA, Rossi A, Shune L, Bhurtel J, Hwang WT, Hansen DK, Sidana S, Garfall AL, Richard S. Real-World Experience with Teclistamab for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma from the US Myeloma Immunotherapy Consortium , Blood Cancer Discov: 2025


Touzeau C, Krishnan AY, Moreau P, Perrot A, Usmani SZ, Manier S, Cavo M, Martinez Chamorro C, Nooka AK, Martin TG, Karlin L, Leleu X, Bahlis NJ, Besemer B, Pei L, Stein S, Wang Lin SX, Trancucci D, Verona R, Girgis S, Miao X, Uhlar C, Chastain K, Garfall A. Efficacy and safety of teclistamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma after BCMA-targeting therapies , Blood: 2024


Hasanali ZS, Garfall AL, Burzenski L, Shultz LD, Tang Y, Kadu S, Sheppard NC, Liu W, Dopkin D, Vogl DT, Cohen AD, Waxman AJ, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Carroll M, Stadtmauer EA, Allman D. Human IL-6 fosters long-term engraftment of patient derived disease-driving myeloma cells in immunodeficient mice , JCI Insight: 2024


Garfall AL, Cohen AD, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Hwang WT, Vogl DT, Waxman AJ, Lacey SF, Gonzalez VE, Fraietta JA, Gupta M, Kulikovskaya I, Tian L, Chen F, Koterba N, Bartoszek RL, Patchin M, Xu R, Plesa G, Siegel DL, Brennan A, Nelson AM, Ferthio R, Cosey A, Shea KM, Leskowitz R, Four M, Wilson WV, Miao F, Lancaster E, Carreno BM, Linette GP, Hexner EO, Young RM, Bu D, Mansfield KG, Brogdon JL, June CH, Milone MC, Stadtmauer EA. Anti-BCMA/CD19 CAR T cells with early immunomodulatory maintenance for multiple myeloma responding to initial or later-line therapy , Blood Cancer Discov, BCD(22): 2022,0074


Moreau P, Garfall AL, van de Donk NWCJ, Nahi H, San-Miguel JF, Oriol A, Nooka AK, Martin T, Rosinol L, Chari A, Karlin L, Benboubker L, Mateos MV, Bahlis N, Popat R, Besemer B, Martínez-López J, Sidana S, Delforge M, Pei L, Trancucci D, Verona R, Girgis S, Lin SXW, Olyslager Y, Jaffe M, Uhlar C, Stephenson T, Van Rampelbergh R, Banerjee A, Goldberg JD, Kobos R, Krishnan A, Usmani SZ. Teclistamab in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma , N Engl J Med, 387(6): 2022,495-505


Garfall A, Dancy E, Cohen A, Wang WH, Frai J, Suhoski M, Levine B, Siegel D, Stadtmauer E, Vogl D, Waxman A, Rapoport A, Milone M, June C, Melehorst J T cell phenotypes associated with effective CAR T cell therapy in post-induction versus relapsed multiple myeloma , Blood Adv , 3(19): 2019 ,2812-2815


Cohen AD, Garfall AL, Stadtmauer EA, Melenhorst JJ, Lacey SF, Lancaster E, Vogl DT, Weiss BM, Dengel K, Nelson A, Plesa G, Chen F, Davis MM, Hwang WT, Young RM, Brogdon JL, Isaacs R, Pruteanu-Malinici I, Siegel DL, Levine BL, June CH, Milone MC B cell maturation antigen-specific CAR T cells are clinically active in multiple myeloma. , J Clin Invest , 129(6): 2019,2210-2221


Garfall AL, Maus MV, Hwang WT, Lacey SF, Mahnke YD, Melenhorst JJ, Zheng Z, Vogl DT, Cohen AD, Weiss BM, Dengel K, Kerr N D S, Bagg A, Levine BL, June CH, Stadtmauer EA Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells against CD19 for Multiple Myeloma. , The New England Journal of Medicine, 373(11): 2015,1040-7


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