Nahal Lalefar, MD

Nahal Rose Lalefar, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics who specializes in pediatric hematology/oncology with a focus on stem cell transplantation. She runs the bone marrow transplant long term follow up program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. She also runs a hematology clinic at UCSF-Fresno.
Education
06/2015 - Fellowship, UCSD Benioff Children's Hospital
06/2011 - Residency, UCSF Fresno/Children's Hospital Central California
06/2008 - Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine
06/2003 - Biotechnology Certificate, California State University
06/2001 - , University of California Berkeley

  1. Dvorak CC, Long-Boyle JR, Holbrook-Brown L, Abdel-Azim H, Bertaina A, Vatsayan A, Talano JA, Bunin NJ, Anderson EJ, Flower A, Lalefar NR, Higham CS, Kapoor N, Klein O, Odinakachukwu MC, Cho S, Jacobsohn DA, Collier W, Pulsipher MA. Effect of Rabbit ATG PK on Outcomes after TCR-αβ/CD19-depleted Pediatric Haploidentical HCT for Hematologic Malignancy. Blood advances 2024. PMID: 39042892


  2. Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Reyes G, Simon MR, Pearce EM, Kim H, Shaw PJ, Rowan CM, Auletta JJ, Martin PL, Godder K, Duncan CN, Lalefar NR, Kreml EM, Hume JR, Abdel-Azim H, Hurley C, Cuvelier GDE, Keating AK, Qayed M, Killinger JS, Fitzgerald JC, Hanna R, Mahadeo KM, Quigg TC, Satwani P, Castillo P, Gertz SJ, Moore TB, Hanisch B, Abdel-Mageed A, Phelan R, Davis DB, Hudspeth MP, Yanik GA, Pulsipher MA, Sulaiman I, Segal LN, Versluys BA, Lindemans CA, Boelens JJ, DeRisi JL, Pediatric Transplantation and Cell Therapy Consortium. Pathobiological signatures of dysbiotic lung injury in pediatric patients undergoing stem cell transplantation. Nature medicine 2024. PMID: 38783139


  3. Takahashi T, Watkins B, Bratrude B, Neuberg D, Hebert K, Betz K, Yu A, Choi SW, Davis J, Duncan C, Giller R, Grimley M, Harris AC, Jacobsohn D, Lalefar N, Farhadfar N, Pulsipher MA, Shenoy S, Petrovic A, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Blazar BR, Horan JT, Langston A, Kean LS, Qayed M. The Adverse Event Landscape of Stem Cell Transplant: Evidence for AGVHD Driving Early Transplant Associated Toxicities. Transplantation and cellular therapy 2024. PMID: 38583802


  4. Gorfinkel L, Raghunandan S, Watkins B, Hebert K, Neuberg DS, Bratrude B, Betz K, Yu A, Choi SW, Davis J, Duncan C, Giller R, Grimley M, Harris AC, Jacobsohn D, Lalefar N, Farhadfar N, Pulsipher MA, Shenoy S, Petrovic A, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Blazar BR, Horan JT, Langston A, Kean LS, Qayed M. Overlap chronic GVHD is associated with adverse survival outcomes compared to classic chronic GVHD. Bone marrow transplantation 2024. PMID: 38383714


  5. Rotz SJ, Hamilton BK, Wei W, Ahmed I, Winston SA, Ballard S, Bernard RJ, Carpenter P, Farhadfar N, Ferraro C, Friend BD, Gloude NJ, Hayashi RJ, Hoyle K, Jenssen K, Koo J, Lee CJ, Mariano L, Nawabit R, Ngwube A, Lalefar N, Phelan R, Perkins L, Rao A, Rayes A, Sandheinrich T, Stafford L, Tomlinson K, Whiteside S, Wiedl C, Myers K. Fertility Potential and Gonadal Function in Survivors of Reduced Intensity HCT. Transplantation and cellular therapy 2024. PMID: 38342136


  6. Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Reyes G, Simon MR, Pearce EM, Kim H, Shaw PJ, Rowan CM, Auletta JJ, Martin PL, Godder K, Duncan CN, Lalefar NR, Kreml EM, Hume JR, Abdel-Azim H, Hurley C, Cuvelier GDE, Keating AK, Qayed M, Killinger JS, Fitzgerald JC, Hanna R, Mahadeo KM, Quigg TC, Satwani P, Castillo P, Gertz SJ, Moore TB, Hanisch B, Abdel-Mageed A, Phelan R, Davis DB, Hudspeth MP, Yanik GA, Pulsipher MA, Sulaiman I, Segal LN, Versluys BA, Lindemans CA, Boelens JJ, DeRisi JL, Pediatric Transplantation and Cell Therapy Consortium. Pulmonary microbiome and transcriptome signatures reveal distinct pathobiologic states associated with mortality in two cohorts of pediatric stem cell transplant patients. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 38077035


  7. Takahashi T, Al-Kofahi M, Jaber M, Bratrude B, Betz KM, Suessmuth Y, Yu A, Neuberg DS, Choi SW, Davis JH, Duncan C, Giller RH, Grimley M, Harris AC, Jacobsohn DA, Lalefar NR, Farhadfar N, Pulsipher MA, Shenoy S, Petrovic A, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Blazar BR, Horan JT, Watkins B, Langston A, Qayed M, Kean LS. Higher Abatacept Exposure Decreases Acute GVHD Risk Without Increasing Adverse Events. Blood 2023. PMID: 37319437


  8. Knight TE, Ahn KW, Hebert KM, Atshan R, Wall DA, Chiengthong K, Rotz SJ, Fraint E, Rangarajan HG, Auletta JJ, Sharma A, Kitko CL, Hashem H, Williams KM, Wirk B, Dvorak CC, Myers KC, Pulsipher MA, Warwick AB, Lalefar NR, Schultz KR, Qayed M, Broglie L, Eapen M, Yanik GA. Effect of Autograft CD34+ Dose on Outcome in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant for Central Nervous System Tumors. Transplantation and cellular therapy 2023. PMID: 36990222


  9. Pulsipher MA, Ahn KW, Bunin NJ, Lalefar NR, Anderson EJ, Flower A, Cairo MS, Talano JA, Chaudhury S, Kitko CL, Duke JL, Monos D, Leung W, Dvorak CC, Abdel-Azim H. KIR-Favorable TCR-αβ/CD19-Depleted Haploidentical HCT in Children with ALL/AML/MDS: Primary Analysis of PTCTC ONC1401. Blood 2022. PMID: 35776909


  10. Brooks JT, Solans BP, Lu Y, Kharbanda S, Dvorak CC, Lalefar N, Long S, Gupta AO, Horn B, Lamba JK, Huang L, Apsel-Winger B, Keizer RJ, Savic R, Long-Boyle J. Prospective Validation and Refinement of a Population Pharmacokinetic Model of Fludarabine in Children and Young Adults Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Pharmaceutics 2022. PMID: 36432661


  11. Qayed M, Watkins B, Gillespie S, Bratrude B, Betz K, Choi SW, Davis J, Duncan C, Giller R, Grimley M, Harris AC, Jacobsohn D, Lalefar N, Norkin M, Farhadfar N, Pulsipher MA, Shenoy S, Petrovic A, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Waller EK, Langston A, Kean LS, Horan JT. Abatacept for GVHD prophylaxis can reduce racial disparities by abrogating the impact of mismatching in unrelated donor stem cell transplantation. Volume 6 of Issue 3. Blood advances 2022. PMID: 34753172


  12. Dandoy CE, Davies SM, Woo Ahn K, He Y, Kolb AE, Levine J, Bo-Subait S, Abdel-Azim H, Bhatt N, Chewning J, Gadalla S, Gloude N, Hayashi R, Lalefar NR, Law J, MacMillan M, O'Brien T, Prestidge T, Sharma A, Shaw P, Winestone L, Eapen M. Comparison of total body irradiation versus non-total body irradiation containing regimens for de novo acute myeloid leukemia in children. 2021. PMID: 32554562


  13. Watkins B, Qayed M, McCracken C, Bratrude B, Betz K, Suessmuth Y, Yu A, Sinclair S, Furlan S, Bosinger S, Tkachev V, Rhodes J, Tumlin AG, Narayan A, Cribbin K, Gillespie S, Gooley TA, Pasquini MC, Hebert K, Kapoor U, Rogatko A, Tighiouart M, Kim S, Bresee C, Choi SW, Davis J, Duncan C, Giller R, Grimley M, Harris AC, Jacobsohn D, Lalefar N, Norkin M, Farhadfar N, Pulsipher MA, Shenoy S, Petrovic A, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Waller EK, Levine JE, Ferrara JL, Blazar BR, Langston A, Horan JT, Kean LS. Phase II Trial of Costimulation Blockade With Abatacept for Prevention of Acute GVHD. Volume 39 of Issue 17. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2021. PMID: 33449816


  14. Dandoy CE, Rotz S, Alonso PB, Klunk A, Desmond C, Huber J, Ingraham H, Higham C, Dvorak CC, Duncan C, Schoettler M, Lehmann L, Cancio M, Killinger J, Davila B, Phelan R, Mahadeo KM, Khazal S, Lalefar N, Vissa M, Myers K, Wallace G, Nelson A, Khandelwal P, Bhatla D, Gloude N, Anderson E, Huo J, Roehrs P, Auletta JJ, Chima R, Lane A, Davies SM, Jodele S. A pragmatic multi-institutional approach to understanding transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy after stem cell transplant. Blood advances 2021. PMID: 33570619


  15. Lalefar NR, Witkowski A, Simonsen JB, Ryan RO. Wnt3a nanodisks promote ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Volume 14 of Issue 1. Journal of nanobiotechnology 2016. PMID: 27553039