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 married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/joshua71w2wmcblog/posts/1292287/Bob+Duggan+Uc+Santa+Barbara+Gauchos">visit their website</a> of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified before 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  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  worked 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 University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  across the country certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.