Rifkins donate $5.7M to Hopkins’ spine oncology program

Founder of Real Time Medical Systems, Provider Partners Health Plans and long-time health care entrepreneur Dr. Scott Rifkin and his wife Frances Rifkin, R.N. Monday pledged $5.7 million to The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Health System to support research and treatment in the institution’s neurology spine oncology program. The gift, to be paid in full by June 30, 2024, is personal to the Rifkins. A close family member has and continues to be treated in this program led by Dr. Nicholas Theodore, director of the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgical Spine Center with whom they now have a close relationship.