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  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his family and  extremely taught each of his children to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, 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 country and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  <a href="http://houstonseo82x2vlzblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">click for more</a> 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 House 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,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.