Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  delighted in swimming and  browsing. 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  period's  success. <br> When they  wed they  stayed in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer team, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood, <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (10)">visit here</a> wellness and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  globally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  given that 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 clinics in the state and the country and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.