He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in <a href="http://matthew04c6mkdblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/robert-duggan-goalkeeper/">click this link</a> the United Kingdom.