He grew up in San Jose and attended 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 lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, 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 of the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and wellness. He has  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  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 actually  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Research studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology <a href="http://www.23hq.com/joshua71t1qfvblog/story/19021862">click over here now</a> from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.