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 married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic 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 coaching his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the  Recovery Arts <a href="http://superkingdombirdaiden25f5bqfblog.tumblr.com/post/105461473148/doctor-robert-duggan">i loved this</a> (2003). His  approaching book on community, wellness and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional 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  centers 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 recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House 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  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. 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  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.