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 regularly  delighted in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate 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 coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted 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 greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the  household enjoys <a href="http://daniel82v2tiwblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">Full Article</a> an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has 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  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He has  affirmed 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  Residence 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  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.