Bob Duggan is an avid  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  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 victory. <br> When they  wed they  stayed in Malibu where they  frequently enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  <a href="http://blog.easybranches.com/activity-streams/p/1095826/">official site</a> enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed  prior to 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  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.