Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise enjoyed swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball team, 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 annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship 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  buddies. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring person all his life. <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 Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book <a href="http://nathan69q9odtblog.unblog.fr/2014/12/20/robert-duggan-overview-having-to-do-with-san-nicolas-dorm-via-uc-santa-barbara/">dig this</a> on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced traditional 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 first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and has  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He has  affirmed  prior to 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  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural 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 actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.