Bob Duggan is an avid  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  took pleasure 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 season's  triumph. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in <a href="http://logan060efghblog.soup.io/post/509682131/Robert-Duggan-Uc-Santa-Barbara-Gauchos">see here</a> an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and clients to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has 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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.