Abdallah Geara, MD
Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension

Abdallah Geara, MD

Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension
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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

English
English
Français
French
العربية
Arabic

Reviews

Average Rating

783 reviews

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Anonymous
October 2026
He listened
Anonymous
October 2026
I have none, it went very well
Anonymous
October 2026
He was attentive
Anonymous
September 2026
Dr. Geara makes the visit clear and describes my next steps with respect

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

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.
Dr. Geara is a Penn Medicine provider. In New Jersey, providers are affiliated with Penn Medicine through Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey or Princeton Healthcare Affiliated Physicians, PC.

Qualifications and experience

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