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  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were three years old! Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In <a href="http://james51x3cvpblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/bob-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-gauchos/">more tips here</a> 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  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 advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy, 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  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.