Congratulations to ARLG Fellow Natalie Mackow, MD, MSCR! Dr. Mackow received the SHEA Trainee award at IDWeek 2025 for her abstract, “Using a novel Anaerobic Activity Index to assess risk for poor outcomes in burn patients in a burn intensive care unit.”

Dr. Mackow’s research aims to inform antibacterial therapy practices in patients with severe burns to reduce the prevalence of antibacterial resistance, which may be applicable to prevention approaches in other critically ill patient populations.

“Systemic antibiotic therapy is an important, potentially modifiable, risk factor for antibacterial resistance in this vulnerable patient population,” says Dr. Mackow. “Additionally, a novel tool to improve our definition of the anti-anaerobic activity of antibacterials has the potential to be utilized broadly in clinical studies and clinical practice, once validated.”

Learn more about Dr. Mackow’s research and how an ARLG Fellowship supported her work to improve outcomes for patients with severe burns in her ARLG Mentee Spotlight.