He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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 enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly 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  passionate 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  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  unbelievably taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were three years old! Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 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  nation and  has actually  functioned 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  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He has <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/noah50x4fzvblog/posts/1292613/Bob+Duggan+Assigning+A+Higher+Education+During++College+Search">you could try here</a> testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.