Dr. Mark Rivkin, DO, is a board certified neurosurgeon with the SSM Health Neurosciences Institute at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton. Dr. Rivkin is a St. Louis native and completed his undergraduate studies at Washington University. He earned his medical degree from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. During that time, Dr. Rivkin finished a Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery fellowship at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. Following his residency, Dr. Rivkin completed a Complex Spinal Surgery fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital, Harvard CareGroup, in Boston, Mass.