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  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing. Even today, the  household enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer 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 one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has served 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 wellness. He has testified  prior to 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 Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  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  certification in <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/zkmihuboknez/wall_items">look at more info</a> Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.