Bob Duggan is an  devoted sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  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  period's victory. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly 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  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, 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 country and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He has testified  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://ourstage.com/profile/eegyyzdmoghp/wall_items">visit their website</a> in  viewpoint,  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.