Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also enjoyed swimming and surfing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball  group, he led his fraternity to the season's  triumph. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <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  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  kids to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family enjoys an annual ten-day surfing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 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  centers in the state and the country and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (5)">dig this</a> medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned 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  Faith 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  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.