Michael Rivkin |Medical Services
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- English
Michael Rivkin |Education
Medical School
University of Virginia School of Medicine
1984, Charlottesville, VA
Internship
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
1985, Cleveland, OH
Residency
Pediatrics
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
1988, Cleveland, OH
Residency
Pediatric Neurology
New England Medical Center
1992, Boston, MA
Fellowship
Boston Children's Hospital
1993, Boston, MA
Michael Rivkin |Professional History
I am both a pediatrician and a child neurologist, and my practice specializes in children with cerebrovascular disorders and stroke. I completed residencies in pediatrics and pediatric neurology, followed by a fellowship in neurology at Boston Children's Hospital -- broad training that allows me to treat the whole child.
我和直接的中风和Cerebrovascula成立r Center at Boston Children's Hospital. This program, novel at its inception at Boston Children’s Hospital, brings together care for these children from clinicians in the disciplines of neurology, hematology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, occupational therapy and physical therapy. In addition, we instituted a fellowship to accompany this new program, which is designed to train pediatric neurologists to evaluate and care for children who have stroke and cerebrovascular disorders.
We are excited to have created Boston Children's Hospital's acute response team for pediatric stroke known as the "Stroke Stat" system. This important service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assess and treat children who present with symptoms of acute stroke at Boston Children’s Hospital. This system of evaluation is designed to assess these patients rapidly in order to determine if they can be treated with tissue plasminogen activator or intravascular treatments that have greatest efficacy when instituted early and accurately.
I also established and direct the Neurology Intermediate Care Unit, the only one of its kind. My service provides neurological consultations to patients in affiliated intensive care units, including the NICU and the cardiology ICU. Additionally, I am an attending physician for in-patient general neurology, intensive care neurology and neurologist of the week services. I am experienced in the management of increased cranial pressure, cerebral perfusion and neuroprotection.
Dr. Rivkin serves as an expert for the Department of Neurology for Boston Children's Hospital Precision Medicine Service. For more information about the Precision Medicine Service please visitbostonchildrens.org/precisionmed.