Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  delighted 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  success. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate 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 coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Usual Sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the 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 recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to <a href="http://david15f5crgblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">official site</a> policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy, 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 the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.