Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also enjoyed swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball team, he led his fraternity to the season's  triumph. <br> When they married they  stayed in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished 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 children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually 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 <a href="https://andrew04c5apxblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/robert-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-ventura-center-learners-fight-drawing-a-line-under/">click to read more</a> trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Research studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.