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Assistant Proferssor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Bork is an Infectious Disease physician with primary interests in antimicrobial stewardship and infections in the immunocompromised host. She attended New York University where she majored in Biochemistry and went on to SUNY Downstate College of Medicine to complete her medical training. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and her Infectious Diseases fellowship training at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. She also went on to complete a Master of Clinical Research at the University of Maryland Graduate School in Baltimore.
Dr. Bork has prominent leadership roles in the Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs at the VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland Medical Center. Since 2016, Dr. Bork has developed a multidisciplinary and comprehensive antimicrobial stewardship program at the local VA to include acute care, long term care and outpatient areas. In 2021, Dr. Bork was appointed Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Cancer and transplant patients are at high risk for both infections and complications of antibiotics (e.g., C. difficile infection). Balancing these opposing factors is a challenge but lends itself to the opportunity to improve antimicrobial stewardship practices in this vulnerable patient population, an intersection that Dr. Bork is passionate about.
Dr. Bork’s scholarly work includes: (1) Identifying impactful interventions and strategies to optimize antimicrobial selection, (2) Understanding the role of infectious disease consultation versus antimicrobial stewardship in managing infections in hospitalized patients, (3) Discovering ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in antimicrobial practice, and (4) Leveraging advancing diagnostics to improve the accuracy of antibiotics in hospitalized patients.