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 team, he led his fraternity to the season's  success. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate 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  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, 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 actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has actually testified  prior to 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 Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board <a href="http://www.23hq.com/joseph49r2wphblog/story/18891474">you can find out more</a> of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.