Bob Duggan is an  devoted sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  delighted in swimming and surfing. 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 season's  success. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  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  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  extremely taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He has  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  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees <a href="http://daniel81u1shwblog.blog.com/2014/12/21/robert-duggan-10-parameters-in-determining-the-yes-college/">read</a> in  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.