He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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  stayed in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids'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, <a href="http://matthew92w2shvblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">like this</a> Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and incredibly taught each of his  kids to  browse by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering 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  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified before 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  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees 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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.