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  resided in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into 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 play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and  globally,  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  conventional 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 actually  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. 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  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/mjivkwmdinic/wall_items">YOURURL.com</a> 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  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.