Robert J. Cihak, M.D., was born in Yankton, SD, in 1940, where he attended school grades 1-12. He received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he studied under Eric Voegelin. He earned his M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School from 1962-1966. He did his postgraduate medical training and academic work as a surgical intern at Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, CA, as a diagnostic radiology resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA and as associate professor at the University of New Mexico Medical School, Albuquerque, NM from 1966-1971. He practiced diagnostic radiology in Aberdeen WA from 1971-1994. He lives with his wife Mary Lynn and stepson, Michael Bezruchka, in Kirkland WA.

He is a columnist for NewsMax.com. His writings have been published by the Washington Times, Orange County Register, WorldNetDaily.com, Sacramento Bee, Birmingham Alabama Post-Herald, Heritage Foundation, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, The British Journal of Medicine, Western Journal of Medicine, and distributed to over 400 newspapers by the Scripps-Howard News Service.

He also serves as:

• Board Member and Honorary Fellow, Discovery Institute, Seattle, WA, www.discovery.org. 
• Past President, 2000-2001,Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), Tucson, AZ, www.aapsonline.org.
• Board Member, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Tucson, AZ. http://www.oism.org/ddp/.
• Academic Advisor and Founding Board Member, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, Olympia, WA, www.effwa.org.
• Contributing Editor, Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc. (RSH), Worcester MA, Low Level Radiation Health Effects: Compiling the Data http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/data_docs.
• Founding National Advisory Board Member, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Louisiana.