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 married they  resided in Malibu where they  routinely  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  unbelievably taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his patients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He  has actually  affirmed  prior to 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees <a href="http://anthony93a4bkcblog.postbit.com/robert-duggan-mourant.html">basics</a> in  approach,  faith, 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 the United Kingdom.