Bob Duggan is an avid  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high 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  period's  success. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted 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 passion however is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and incredibly taught each of his children to surf by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob has been a sports loving  <a href="http://andrew41f9zacblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/robert-duggan-iii/">more</a> individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of Common Sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, 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 country and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He has testified  prior to 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 House Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Research studies from  New york city 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  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.