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  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and incredibly taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional 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  centers in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified  prior to <a href="http://nathan82x2ukzblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/robert-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-gauchos-2/">Get the facts</a> 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  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.