Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  delighted in swimming and surfing. 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  success. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers <a href="http://blog.easybranches.com/activity-streams/p/1061990/">official website</a> in the state and the  nation and has  functioned 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 organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has 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  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.