Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  took pleasure in swimming and surfing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball  group, he led his fraternity to the season's  triumph. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they regularly  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic 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  training his children's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion 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  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob has been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very 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  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Research studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in <a href="http://www.william17s3edablog.myblog.de/william17s3edablog">Look At This</a> the United Kingdom. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.