Bob Duggan is an  passionate sportsman and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also enjoyed swimming and  browsing. 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  period's victory. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise  went into in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973 and is <a href="http://joshua81h7jzpblog.page.tl/Robert-Duggan-Uc-Santa-Barbara-Gauchos.htm">like this</a> Senior Faculty, 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 actually  worked 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 before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology 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  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.