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  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  standard 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 clinics in the state and the country and  has actually  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified before the Senate Committee <a href="http://aiden37m9ndublog.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/esi-executive-protection/">read what he said</a> on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced 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  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.