Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise enjoyed swimming and  browsing. 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 victory. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  globally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, 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 actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations 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 Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  worked as a priest in the <a href="http://daniel82v2tiwblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">right here</a> U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.