Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  took pleasure 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  triumph. <br> When they  wed they  resided in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate 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  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  worldwide,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, 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 actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He has  affirmed  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (10)">i was reading this</a> served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.