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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and 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  significant  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (10)">Visit Website</a> nation and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication 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 House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.