Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also 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  triumph. <br> When they married they  stayed in Malibu where they  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <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  buddies. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  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  interest  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed  prior to 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  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/kibezzulvthe/wall_items">More Help</a> relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and Community Studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.