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  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship 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 friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion however is surfing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, 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  across the country  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He has  affirmed  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 House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/qtevykysdvlz/wall_items">click this</a> degrees in  viewpoint,  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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.