Bob Duggan is an  passionate sportsman and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  took pleasure in swimming and  browsing. 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  period's victory. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic 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  big soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion 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 patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 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  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country recognized thought leader, speaker <a href="http://www.23hq.com/logan26i7jzpblog/story/18936050">Find Out More</a> and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually  affirmed before 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 Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  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.