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  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture  given that 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 country and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified 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 Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law <a href="http://www.23hq.com/alexander81u1tixblog/story/18925145">pop over here</a> and acupuncture, and has  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from  New york city 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  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.