He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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  wed they lived in Malibu where they regularly  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <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  close friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the family enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard 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 country and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He  has actually testified <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/qgwpufwcdoyd/wall_items">try this web-site</a> 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  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.