Bob Duggan is an  passionate sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise enjoyed 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 season's  success. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  standard 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  nation and has  functioned 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  medication and  health. He has  affirmed  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has 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 actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach, 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  certification in Acupuncture is from <a href="http://joshua70r0peublog.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/bob-duggan-tedx/">additional resources</a> the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.