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  stayed in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has 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  centers 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  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He has testified 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  Natural 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 served as a priest <a href="http://ryan48m8ndtblog.soup.io/post/509808067/Bob-Duggan-Uc-Santa-Barbara-Ventura-Center">image source</a> in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.