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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a  college championship 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  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has 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 one <a href="http://daniel71v2tiyblog.blog.com/2014/12/15/6/">great site</a> of the first acupuncture  centers 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  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually  affirmed 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 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  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Research studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.