Awarded by the American Society of Addiction Medicine for his research in this field, Robert W. Kirchoff is considered a prestigious physician specialized in the approach to Substance Use Disorders. In this sense, he has developed most of his career in health institutions of international reference, such as the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Minnesota or the Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Michigan. 

Among his main achievements, his great contribution to the foundation of the Laboratory of Informatics and Machine Learning stands out. In this way, he has contributed significantly to the improvement of hospital resources through Predictive Analytics. He has also used this technological tool belonging to Artificial Intelligence to identify patients at risk of drug dependence and relapse. As a result, it has enabled numerous users to acquire advanced coping strategies in order to avoid drug use.

It should be noted that he balances this work with his facet as a clinical researcher. In this regard, he has an extensive production on subjects such as the applications of Big Data to the field of medicine, the most innovative pharmacological treatments to combat alcohol addiction, translational informatics applied to individuals with psychological disorders, techniques to prevent drug abuse or cutting-edge methodologies for the treatment of drug addiction.  

On the other hand, in his firm commitment to the advancement of medical technology, he regularly participates as a speaker at scientific congresses and symposiums on an international scale. Thanks to this, he has facilitated the health community to have a greater knowledge of drug-assisted therapies for chemical dependency. In turn, he has enabled specialists to acquire the skills to get the most out of Clinical Bioinformatics and to optimize both their diagnostics and disease management considerably.

• President for Research at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Minnesota, United States
• Medical Director at Foundations Detroit 
• President of the American Society for Addiction Medicine 
• Founder of the Laboratory of Informatics and Machine Learning at Mayo Clinic Hospital 
• Attending Physician at Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Michigan 
• Master of Science in Medical Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 
• Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Chemistry from Albion College 
• Internal Medicine Resident Physician at Wayne State University School of Medicine 
• General Surgery Residency at Mayo Clinic Hospital 
• Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine 
• Fellow of the American Board of Preventive Medicine