Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman 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  delighted 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  success. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after  training his children'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 emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing  areas  consist of 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 gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he has <a href="http://All4Webs.com/t/f/soniaka370qf">navigate here</a> 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  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor 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 been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has 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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.